I absolutely agree that bottling feelings up inside is the worst of all possible solutions. All that stress harms your body, all those hormones damage your internal systems, and you cause yourself a great deal of harm physically and emotionally. So certainly any person who bottles up their emotions rather than getting them out somehow needs to do something - anything - to start changing that.
Jilly brings up a great example with the Biggest Loser. Many of these morbidly obese people have been holding in and hiding their emotions for decades. This is a long term, chronic problem with them and sometimes it needs a pretty big ice pick to hack through that wall the first time. So maybe if what they need is to push themselves over the edge, get past the point of exhaustion and to the point where they just let it all out, that is an important start.
So it is very well worth it, if someone has never addressed their emotions of feeling hurt or angry or frustrated, and has been bottling that all in, step one is to just get it out. Get it out in the open so it can be looked at.
