have you ever had the cold or flu or had some sort of physical injury where you had medication for it but you stalled using it. Or even have a mental disorder for which sometimes you choose to stall or forgo using medications. instead you let yourself feel your symptoms. you let yourself feel that stuffy nose, upset stomach, or let yourself feel the stinnging throbbing of the physical injury, or you let yourself have those delusional thoughts, hallucinations and eratic behavior, saddness, heavy hearted feelings (or other symptoms you may have depending on what your mental disorder is) that come with your mental disorders?

thats called sitting with your feelings. instead of using medications and other ways to get rid of the mental and physical pain and turmoil that you may be going through you let it happen and feel it happening.

people with mental disorders are notorious for going off their medications and choosing to sit with their feelings and symptoms over taking their mediations that come with some pretty awful side effects. for some people its a trade off kind of choice - sit with their feelings and maybe end up where they feel miserable or feel the awful side effects of the medications.