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Research shows that just naming your feelings can have a positive impact on our psychological health. Simply acknowledging when you are sad or angry, happy or excited is crucial to our emotional development and mental health. So often when I work with men in therapy, a block to emotional awareness and expression is at the heart of their difficulties. Saying how you feel is not easy for many. Saying it without having to qualify, justify, or minimize it is even harder. I am amazed to see people’s reactions to events on Twitter. They are to the point and honest. It is hard to mince words on Twitter. In that sense, Twitter provides a (cyber) space for men to vent.


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