Emotions can't be controlled. Anyone who tells you they can is trying to roboticize the race. Therapists, psychiatrists, shrinks, counselors, doctors. Most of these people are pill pushing cyborgs, programmed to fix people who can't be fixed, only distracted by altered states. We'd be doing a better service to ourselves if we stopped trying to get rid of them, by being open and honest about how we feel. When we repress our emotions, they tumble around inside us for so long that they end up escaping in overblown ways. The more we try to lock them up, the bigger this reaction becomes. If something has ever bothered you and you did your best to ignore it, but it kept eating at you until you reacted in a way you normally wouldn't, you know exactly what I mean.
What can be controlled are our reactions to emotions. We face fear with courage, anger with calming techniques, sadness with coping strategies. Emotions can be tamed, but never controlled. They are the lions of our conscience, strong as justice and free as the will. Sedating them with medications only serves to prolong the inevitable; that we haven't fully processed them, or let them come out, strengthening those brewing storms in our hearts that lay dormant.
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