PSYCHOLOGY – Psychiatrists warn against denying negative emotions.
There is no such thing as being happy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! “Negative emotions are part of life, and no one escapes them“recalls Dr. Stéphanie Hahusseau, author of Let your emotions live without guilt or anxiety (ed. Odile Jacob). The psychiatrist also notes that “the tyranny of happiness has not always been present» and pleads in his book not to repress his negative emotions, at the risk of feeling bad momentarily.
A counterproductive repression
It is indeed completely normal to be sad at the loss of a loved one, disappointed not to have had a promotion at work, angry to have been cheated by a loved one, etc. Trying to relentlessly drive away these emotions with a lot of meditation, letting go and other injunctions to be benevolent, zen and/or positive in all circumstances, above all has the effect of pushing you to exhaustion. “Experiencing negative emotions is an inescapable phenomenon of our existence as human beings. We can not…
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