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You’ve been that customer. You’ve sat on hold, forced to listen to the same endless loop of elevator music, only to have your call routed to the wrong department after a 16-minute wait. It may not have been Althea in Fraud’s fault that Ramesh in Technical Support actually meant to send your call to Rita in Account Management, but damn.

The angry hardly ever see themselves as angry. We treat anger as a temporal emotion, a lapse in our rational judgement, a strange impulse that took us by surprise. “I don’t know what got into me,” we laugh.

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Laughter as Catharsis

Join us for a big laugh by the lemon tree

Catharsis is also closely related to the idea of schadenfreude, which is taking pleasure in the misery of other people. The difference is really an academic one in some circumstances though. Whether you’re taking pleasure in watching a video of a guy getting kicked in the nuts and laughing at his misfortune, or laughing with relief that at least that isn’t happening to you makes no difference. The act is still causing laughter.

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Power of Pets

Never underestimate the purr therapy

His mother was at a shelter in Georgia with a litter of Kittens. The Catnip Cottage was notified that Ollie’s mom and her kittens were scheduled to be euthanized. A Catnip Cottage volunteer drove to Georgia and rescued the mother and kittens and brought them to Summerville, SC. Since the mother was still nursing the kittens, she could not be spayed and they discovered that she was pregnant before she was rescued.

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The Boundaries Issue

Boundaries shape the way we live, work and love—but what shapes our boundaries?

Setting boundaries is an important part of establishing one’s identity and is a crucial aspect of mental health and well-being. Boundaries can be physical or emotional, and they can range from being loose to rigid, with healthy boundaries often falling somewhere in between.

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