Can Hatred Ever Be Healthy?

There are things I hate like chores and work and my weight and some foods. But I do not hate any person. I may hate their behavour but not them. It is not healthy to hate a person no matter who they are or what they have done. I have disliked a person because of their behavour but I don't hate them. Hate is a very strong word and emotion.

Hello wolfie34, I would first like to honestly admit that I haven’t read other responses, just so I am myself, without any external influence, and can give an original response to this intriguing question. But, I’ll surely read, once I am finished. I believe that every emotion which is embedded into intrinsic human nature is not bad in itself at its core. I believe that nature, of anything, is neutral and that it us who can manipulate it for either ends/results whether ‘good’ or ‘bad’ (good and bad themselves can be subjective matters). There must be some positive purpose to this seemingly negative emotion; a positive end, a positive outcome; if there are negative ones. I believe that like all other human emotions, hate can be as much beautiful, constructive and an adorable emotion, as love is, when used in limits. I’ll explain! Before I give my reason, I must say that ‘hate’ is a very strong word that should be used with caution! Many people use this word to describe their emotion without realizing that they are still far away from this stage. Usually, when people dislike something from moderately or strongly, they call it hate while actually it isn’t hate! The purpose of hate is, basically, to generate strong impulse/drive of repulsion for something or some one. Are there things that need to be disgusted strongly? If yes, then hate provides the perfect driving force for this purpose. I do not support hating a person at all but hating something deplorable is actually and really adorable. Hating a person is awful in itself and hating inhumane, base and unethical actions is adorable. This hate will make us more human and when used this way, it's really a beautiful human emotion. Like hating rape means that a person has such strong negative emotion for this deplorable act that he will not go close to any such thing. Hating killing innocent people will deter us doing such things ourselves. Hating ‘hating’ a person will make us still be friends with that person while correcting his faults. Hating our own negative traits will cause us improve them so that we can love ourselves. I believe that when hate is used for deplorable human actions and not persons, it generates very fruitful and positive results. I don’t know how much sense it makes to you, or to anybody for that matter, but I do believe in positivity of intrinsic human nature. It is there to rejoice, to celebrate and to prosper; intellectually, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually!

I know as a church goer and a good Christian I am not supposed to hate anyone but I do , My hubby's brothers were not nice to my MIL . We did not find his out until she was dying and I will always hate them for that as she was a lovely wee woman xx

Hatred is frowned upon as a very dark emotion. When you say you hate someone, the response is - that's a very harsh thing to say, you don't mean that. Yet I believe that all of us have the capacity to hate. Most people deny it. One of the most freeing experiences I had was when I verbalized my hatred. Before doing this, I held that toxic emotion inside of me without the ability to let it out. Allot of depression is created because we hate circumstances we feel we can do nothing about. The hatred festers inside and brings such a dark cloud around us that it is too heavy to push away and we feel helpless to do anything about it. If only we could express more freely before getting to the state of hatred we would all be healthier for it. Hatred is an unhealthy emotion when it is caught inside us. Acknowledging the fact we hate is healthy, though it needs to be done constructively - without spewing toxic dialogue onto the person we tend to blame for our own emotional shortcomings. Being honest with myself is the healthiest thing I can do. I do hate some things, some circumstances in life are not at all pleasant and I will not pretend they are. I will not go around with my head in the clouds pretending all is rosey when it clearly is not. But I have learned to be honest and not hold in what is not good for me, and the emotion of hatred is one of them.

From what I personally experience, hatred is tantamount to losing one's self-esteem and perception in life. Especially if you have this hatred for so long that eventually, you will start hating yourself too. I can't say if hatred can be good for us but it wasn't, in my case. I started feeling sorry for myself and blaming the whole world for what happened to me. I mastered up my courage and try to come to terms with what's making me this way. Forgiving the person who gave me this heart that's full of hatred and move on with my life.

Wolfie, I have to agree that any hatred you harbor could not be good for you pysically or emotionally....but is a natural defensive and sometimes protective behavor that can be covering up other emotions and issues youve yet recognized or have been able to deal with clearly. I hope you will find a way to deal with this anger as well as forgive yourself for being angry.....in the mean time I wish you all the best....and hope you dont let this destroy you and completly take over your life. Because there is so much more out there to focuse your energys on that is good and benificial to you; GOOD LUCK

If you hate the disgusting habits,boring people,maniacal tendencies and wretched people it certainly will be helpful in your life to get rid of those negative things.

I don't think that true un-ending, grudge-bearing hatred can ever be healthy, but I do think that an open dislike can be healthy IF it makes the one who dislikes QUESTION their dislike, and either change their mind and being to like, OR come up with a valid reason for disliking something. Valid reasons may include: I don't like that man because he hurt my mother. I don't like the double standard in society because women are not yet equal to men. I don't like foods that I am alergic to.

hatred can never be viewed as healthy, it is not, humans have a range of emotions, some are healthy some are neutral and some do more damage than good, hatred is about the worst emotion you can feel. it not only hurts the person you hate, it also hurts you physically by eating away at you making you feel violent emotions that make you angry nervous, and if felt long enough very sick.

atred should not be confused with anger. I don't think hatred is ever healthy, but anger let out in a healthy way can be beneficial. Holding in anger can result in depression, heart attacks, ulcers, and other illnesses. But the operative word here is "healthy".....we all have to manage our anger by learning to let it out appropriately so it doesn't fester like a bad sore.

It's horrible to hate. You only loose your energy but you are giving a hard time to yourself. But at times, we really can't ignore to feel it, especially when what happened get into our nerves and made us feel really bad. Personally, I don't know but it comes naturally but when I try to be aware and check my emotion and I realize it will only hurt me more, I can shift and let go. I just cry it out and when things are settled in, I'll tell the person who somehow made me feel some hate towards him/her of how I felt and just say sorry for feeling bad, it feels better and I mostly gained more friends for it.

I dont feel hatred very often, but there is just one person who I absolutely hate with a passion. I dont know that hatred is healthy, its quite a scary emotion and it does change the way you feel it can interfere with everyday life. I think about this person I hate nearly everyday, it gets so bad sometimes it invades my dreams. If I see her in the street which luckily is not very often I start to shake really bad and feel like I could just flatten her. I dont think I would say its positive as the strength of my feelings sometimes gets me down, its a very strange feeling.

Hatred never be a positive thing, it always bring damaged to everyone who has it. We should keep telling our self not to feel or even thinking about it. Forgiving and frogiveness are the key medicine for it, and we should strive for not to have hatred in our life. For sure it will bring us to the pit and it is a destructive habit.

Getting too much emotional and worrying negative things are main leads for depression

I also feel hatred is a too strong word to use. I will prefer irritating , I don't think I actually hate as hate means any person. t can never be a healthy emotion as it is bound to land in you some kind of soup sooner or later. Life is not a film, its only in those we have heroes ravaged by hate achieving success,lol.

No. i believe that hatred are not healthy for you. if you hold unto that feeling, it will change you - yor views,and how you see life as a whole. it won't be the best thing to hold on to. When you hate someone, you could have many things run around your mind, following that person, wanting to know if he's better than you, etc... and you will see that person move on... without him probably knowing you hate him. and you are stuck at a place where you can't seem to get anywhere.

Hatred is one of the worse emotion. There is nothing good about hate. It just get you in all sort of trouble. Hatred generate anger and stress... It makes you over-react... It can land you in jail... People commit murder when they cannot control their hate anymore for someone. Hatred is self destructive... If you hate someone... you must get that person out of your life and have no further contact with it. You must forget about it. Because hating that person will destroy you.

I don't know it is bad to hate wolfie,...hate has helped many a person survive,to cope,to climb that mountain in darkness,it gives great strength,as does love.It also can destroy,as can love.Hate can heal,love can heal,both serve you,however it is how you react to these two powerful emotions that is the deciding factor. If love Pulls you down,would you not grab for the nearest reed,let us call the reed hate.If hate is pulling you down then it would be handy to have love near by to grab hold of.To me,they are equal,they only become destructive when you run from them,thus giving them power over you.If you require strength from either of these emotions,simply embrace them,and don't beat up on yourself for doing so,nor fear them,this is where the problem lies.It is wrong to hate?I am telling you now,If someone harmed a loved one of mine,I would feel justifiable hatred,and embrace it to boot! Bitterness is a different story all together,life is bitter sweet,however to stay in bitterness too long,will only serve to bring about the core of destruction.Time is a great healer,given enough time for mourning etc,we can then begin to bring both love and hate into balance,embracing both as friend and teacher,and in so doing can truly start to live life to the fullest.

I don't think hatred will be good for health. As you are full of anger feelings and you keep it on mind and you won't let it go. You won't be happy since that. All of we know that happiness is good for health. On the contrary, hatred will be harmful for health.

Hello bro, I think personally that hatred could be healthy at times; depending on the situation. If you think that feeling of hatred would distance yourself to this particular bad person who has done bad things to you, then I consider that to be healthy. For instance, we watched the fairytale Cinderella. Sometimes, it is kind of stupid to be letting the evil stepmother keep torturing Cinderella and in this kind of circumstance that I feel that Cinderella should have some kind of hatred in her so that she could lead her own life, away from the evil stepmother who appears to be very controlling of her life and also bullying her. As for in my own life, I have used the feelings of hatred to distance myself from some of my colleagues that I think are just out there to make me lose myself at work. They are the slackers and I don't hate them, but I need to have that kind of hatred feelings towards their attitude to work in order for me to be a good healthy employee. I hope you have a clearer picture as to my description on this, cheers ;)