Swimmer963 comments on Emotional regulation, Part I: a problem summary - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 07 March 2012 03:14:30AM 2 points [-]

Preferably do it somewhere safe where you can be alone. You might find yourself crying, screaming, shaking, curling up into a ball... whatever your body feels like doing to really magnify and intensify the emotion is good.

I have no problem with doing this in private...in fact, letting out strong emotions is a process I find almost pleasurable. What I wish I had is control over when the process is triggered, since right now most of the triggers are in social situations, and I can't "turn it off" and then turn it back on later.