If true, wouldn’t this undermine the entire psychiatric approach of behavioral cognitive therapy and ideas such as confronting one’s fears and talking through problems?
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#12There's a saying "the squeeky wheel get's the grease".
People usually do what works for them. thats exactly why we still see fist fights, disinformation, yelling, racisim, war, complaining, etc. It does what it was intended to do. Otherwise, people would do something else.
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#13If true, wouldn’t this undermine the entire psychiatric approach of behavioral cognitive therapy and ideas such as confronting one’s fears and talking through problems?
From TFA: “chatting with friends can bring closure when they help you reconstrue an event, rather than just recount it. What does that look like? Asking why you think the other person acted that way, prodding to see whether there’s anything to be learned from it all, and just generally broadening your perspective to ‘the grand scheme of things.’ Unfortunately, this type of meaning-making is far from common outside of therapy”
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#14what a selfish mindset
venting produce effects, it make the reader understand other people's feeling without knowing them
if makes them learn about people and their frustrations
ultimately, it gives them the opportunity to come up with a direct or indirect response to them
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#15> Venting anger is like using gasoline to put out a fire.
There could be some truth to it. Since I started venting on HN about how bad ads, drm, social media, and patents are, their prevalence has increased!
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#16Catharsis(aka venting) has had a multiple studies saying that it doesn't work. Stop venting.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1967-02716-001 - it's even in the abstract.
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#17It sounds like the aggressive behavior was measured pretty soon after hitting the punching bag. It would be interesting to run the test again after the adrenaline has worn off. I don't think proponents of catharsis are claiming that screaming at a tree if going to instantly make you calmer, it's that later that day you might feel better. Also, participants were instructed to focus their anger on the perpetrator of th…
Do you know of a single study that supports catharsis? Because all studies I know of disprove or end up inconclusive.
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#18Thought experiment: two groups of people, a control group and one told "stop venting".
1. Which group achieves more success in solving their underlying problem?
2. Which group exhibits higher levels of psychological satisfaction?
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