Sometimes you can, actually, choose whether or not to hold onto anger or sadness or etc. Like, i have depression and anxiety just like 2 thirds of the people on here as well, so I am very well aware that sometimes emotions cant in fact be controlled by simply deciding to Stop Feeling that emotion.
But sometimes you can choose to stop fucking wallowing. Sometimes you have the option between letting a moment of emotion go and move on and feel better, or holding onto that emotion and wallowing in it. And for gods sake, why the fuck do any of you choose the wallow option.
Again - I’m just as mentally ill as the rest of you. I know that emotions aren’t always controllable, and this post isn’t about those times. This post is about the times when you can choose to sulk, like a six year old having a tantrum, or you can choose to not do that. And I do the fuck not understand why anyone would ever choose to wallow and sulk and mope and brood. Like. What the fuck. Why. When you have the choice, literally why would you ever choose to marinate in misery.
