Yay for Sadness and Emotional Intelligence

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2015)

I am a psychiatrist (and mother of 3 young little ones) who has sadly witnessed the devolution of the American emotional intelligence over my lifetime (1970's-present). It is clear that a large sector of the American population (including our politicos) have become allergic to sadness, shunting all appropriate sadness into anger (FYI, the driving force behind these negative reviewers here). Men (especially) tend to be diabolically afraid of sadness and will shunt it to anger. That's why I am so amazed how this movie got it SO RIGHT. The creators must have had a lot of insight and/or input from (good) psychological thinkers. I love the scene with Sadness and the pink elephant -- Sadness listened to him (and tolerated his crying) - yielding his joy. Sadness is cathartic and we are evolved to benefit from this emotion. Listen and be comfortable with sadness. Yay, for Inside Out.