Your Brain on Resentment
Briefly

Resentment plays a crucial role in helping the brain avoid deep despair, preventing PTSD through its complex emotional dynamics and psychological safeguards.
Understanding resentment's hidden nature can provide profound insights into trauma recovery, revealing how it can influence mental health, relationships, and emotional resilience.
As a tertiary emotion, resentment emerges after processing primary and secondary emotions, indicating its deep-rooted connection to feelings of injustice and helplessness.
Unlike immediate anger, resentment is a passive form of defiance that lurks beneath the surface, affecting wellbeing by resurfacing past grievances.
Read at Psychology Today
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