I don't mind hearing all about people's problems if they're comfortable telling me and statistically it's unlikely I'm the only one XP If not cathartic, at best you end up rubber duck debugging.
both J and I are rubber ducks over here, sometimes we'll just blather out whatever is giving us problems to the other person and demand WHY WON'T THIS WORK?! like the other one will actually have anything remotely resembling a clue that might allude to the same universe as understanding what's going on
I think the only time blatting all your problems is a problem in itself is if you're one of those people that whine incessantly but refuse to actually do anything other than that. I'm pretty sure you know exactly the type I'm talking about, and you know you're the polar opposite of that type XD
Drat about the stressfulness :<
Last couple of years haven't been great, this year was probably better than the previous ones at least, and even at the worst it was still several orders of magnitude better than the worst that could happen.
Incessant whining isn't good. It can be healthy to get things off ones chest though, helpful too, but there's a lot of whining and no action sometimes. It's not my way. I tend to do the reverse.
I think it's a societal thing, the whining, it's like, all of a sudden, that became the thing to do. Partly the victim mentality and the expectation ethos combined I suppose.