Individuals who only identify with “positive” feelings often become bland, deadened, and dissociated in a feeling-less desert, a true no-man’s-land. In the psychic desert of disavowed emotion, the smoldering heat of repressed anger evaporates our feelings of love and affection, leaving us emotionally dehydrated. Rejecting emotions because they are sometimes unpleasant is like cutting off body parts because they are not pretty.
