Allowable emotions.
If you were brought up in an emotionally repressive environment, or have ever held a job where stifling one's real emotions is important for the sake of earning an income, you may be only allowing yourself to express a limited range of emotions, just out of practise. These are what I just termed, "Allowable emotions." I don't know how many times I smiled at someone at work when I really wanted to tell them off. But you had to to keep your pay cheque. If you can't express your full range of emotions at least even privately, then you're still repressing them. Sometimes addictions help in this regard. We drown out emotional binges that would have been healthier to have had. I figure human emotions are like piano keys. There are the funny ones at each end that sound weird but they're there for a reason. Don't confuse emotions with their resultant states. I see many emotional charts do this. One I saw even mentioned a state of drunkenness as an emotion. No, that's a state. It's the emotion you were feeling before you started drinking that dictated how much you would imbibe, like anger, sadness or happiness. https://www.healthline.com/health/list-of-emotions#fear
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