While venting in therapy can offer valuable emotional release, overdoing it can lead to a psychological trap where individuals feel temporarily relieved but ultimately stuck. This reliance on venting can stifle motivation to enact real change, causing emotional patterns to persist. Research indicates that instead of relieving emotions, excessive expression of anger can reinforce it, thus demonstrating the fine balance needed in therapy between venting and transformative action.
Venting can feel good because it provides immediate emotional release, but relying on it excessively can leave us feeling stuck without resolution.
Freud labeled venting as the 'talking cure,' but over-reliance on this can dampen our motivation to change what we're upset about.
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