Post #3861668
2026-07-16 15:12 UTC
@CJPaloma@mstdn.social
if you’re not seething, you’re self-soothing
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@CJPaloma@mstdn.social 2026-07-16 15:22
@paninid@mastodon.world I mean you have to do both. Self soothing is an important skill to have, but anger's been so weaponized! Plenty of people have habitually externalized their anger on the wrong things and people, and what also gets overlooked is there are plenty of times when really externalizing that anger and using it to take down abusers is completely appropriate, and really the only ethical action. But…instead there's this confusion about how to use emotions in healthy ways to fuel good changes