Philosophy

When feeling down, is it possible and/or wiser to
1. accept your feelings
2. overcome them
3. neither
4. both

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I can rarely make sense of those questions. Recently I came across a framing that made so much more sense to me. Anything imposed on us by the environment is called affect. Affect is neutral. It's a fact that just happens. We're conditioned to give it meaning. You can choose that meaning and overcome your conditioning.

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Aha so do you think that is the case for all feelings? 

I agree only to some extent.

Don't you think e.g. pleasure / pain are pretty much innate instead of conditioned?

Pleasure/Pain are functions of the nervous system. Emotions are functions of consciousness. Our sensory systems receive affect from the environment. Emotions are reflexive between nervous system and sensory system.

Pain != Emotion

You can decide whether pain (the fact) is good or bad (your choice). See David Goggins.