First, don’t tell me that the answer is just to “not bottle things up”, because that’s objectively incorrect too. Society doesn’t want you to have any negative emotions. I need to know how to not express negative emotions at all whatsoever unless I’m alone. I know it can be done because it is done in many other people on the planet.
Edit: Ok so I think one of the things I want to try doing next is ask for a med change from my psych provider.
Bottling things up is totally fine if it works for you. The people telling you not to do that are just projecting because they can’t do it.
Bottling things up is very unhealthy.
Ah, one the people showed up. How surprising.
All bottling means is that you are choosing when to deal with something. I agree it isn’t negative on its own.
Would you argue for bottling things up indefinitely in some situations?
I guess. That sometimes happens by accident when you bottle something up … and then just forget about it.