If you are anything like most people, you didn't have a class in "how to deal with difficult emotions" when you were in grade school, a time in which such a thing could have been really useful.
If you had, it might have kept you from developing less-than-helpful habits such as eating, drinking, shopping, fighting, blaming, and other destructive tendencies designed to avoid and deny your feelings. Even if you didn't learn healthy ways of dealing with your feelings when you were young, it is never too late to bring compassion and understanding to your world of emotions. It is never too late to realize that all emotions are mentionable and manageable, and I'd like to add natural.
First of all, unpleasant emotions are natural and mentionable. Everyone has them and will continue to have them as long as they are alive. They are a part of us and arise out of the conditions of our existence. Even the most enlightened human beings you know have feelings of sadness and anger. They, like you, feel deeply from the heart. Unpleasant emotions are not bad or wrong. They are a natural and normal part of our shared human existence.
