angry, fearful, apathetic, or despairing,
I think there are ways to approach this with all of these feelings/emotional responses in a godly way. Emotion isn’t sin. Anger at unrighteousness is the correct, Christian response. Fear can also be an appropriate response.
And. Even if we do respond that way.
Emotions tell us something about how we perceive the situation. I would argue we do not need to STOP the emotion so much as use it to see what idolatry lives in our heart and where genuine grief is, which we can then pour out to the Lord in lament. But just stopping the emotion is a recipe for spiritual bypassing, which I don’t believe actually leads to any real growth in Christ (and can’t!) because there’s no honesty.
