This is a response to an X thread on a psychological study on the value of suppressing negative thoughts:
A few points I would add. I tend to see two extremes when it comes to this question. First, there are some people who are not aware of what is going on in their interior life. They keep themselves continually distracted and they have no sense of what they are doing or why they are doing it. Oftentimes, these people have to be taught to recognize they indeed have emotions and thoughts that are not being fully understood.
The second extreme is the person who is constantly overthinking and ruminating on their interior life in an unhealthy way. In this case, a person has to be taught to suppress their negative thought patterns and bury it under a cloud of unknowing. In his rules of discernment, St Ignatius talks about actively resisting the thoughts that come from desolation.
Here are the tweets
https://twitter.com/ntfabiano/status/1892914225351098407?s=46
and here is the study he cites