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Is regret healthy?

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Only if it leads to a future positive action

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I think regret is natural but because its natural doesn't mean its healthy, I mean is poison oak healthy to eat?

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maybe we're said but that doesn't mean that regret is not healthy . so i think yeah because of regretting things we get wiser and learn stuff. so YES OF COURSE IT'S HEALTHY!

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Duh, of course it is. People tend to keep doing the things they don't regret, and tend not to do the things they do regret. Regret is the psychological feedback mechanism by which we learn from our own behavior. It sounds like you are actually referring to an unhealthy obsession concerning that emotion. We have a designation for people who lack the capacity to regret- sociopath.

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@MLZellers Agreed

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I don't know if it is healthy but it is a natural reaction to many things. It may lie dormant or it may appear immediately after the regret-originating event occurred but to ignore or internalize the emotion would like do more harm than the standard regret cycle.

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I wouldn't say healthy, but it's a normal part of life. Everyone feels it. As long as you can move on from it, make yourself say "oh well" about it, then I think it's fine. It's the regrets that become obsessions that are unhealthy, and not normal.

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i guess it depends on what one does with the regret. if one uses it to learn from, then yeah - if one uses it to punish one's self, than no...

@mikewurtz San Antonio, TX

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