Unbridled Emotion

Hysteria.  I hate it.  Can't reason with it.  Can't talk to it.  Probably the worst emotion with which we deal here in the Trenches.  The worst thing is that the folks who become hysterical never see the precipitating event coming.  They minimize their bad behavior.  They never suffer consequences commensurate with their actions.  That's why, when the consequences of bad behavior finally come home to roost, they become hysterical.  If those folks only learned from their mistakes, we could handle the hysteria, but they usually don't. We wish they would, because they're not bad people, just folks who never learned appropriate boundaries.  Too bad it sometimes takes a tragedy or a court decision to help them learn.  It's the school of hard knocks, and they are its main pupils. Here in the Trenches.