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Catharsis - One Key of a Process to Mental Health

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We all strive every day to appear strong and invulnerable in private life and business life. Society or community pressure us to do it - or we believe they expect that from us. In addition, we often hardly have enough time to process certain experiences appropriately, to understand what we have experienced, to assess damage, to resolve contradictions and to overcome frustration an disappointments. Catharsis is one psychological key to start the process - to find your path and go your way. Our emotions, however, might or will become into view / become obvious in chaotic ways along the way, perhaps in the form of tears of anger or sadness, but little by little they allow us to find the right words to process what we have experienced. Adrienne Maree Brown once said something which fits in this context - I think or better I like the quote: “Things are not getting worse. They are getting uncovered. We must hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil.“  And as historical bac...