Lion's Roar

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LIFE IS VERY EMOTIONAL. It’s a constant flow of emotions, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes hardly noticeable, but there all the time.

Strong emotions like grief or fury can knock us entirely out of commission. But even barely noticeable emotions have their effects. They may seem to pass away, but can remain buried within us and affect our behavior and our general point of view in ways we probably don’t understand or even perceive.

Freud and his

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