Venting doesn’t work

I think there is a big difference between talking through negative feelings and venting. I would agree with this article, that venting may feel good in the short term, but it doesn't ultimately help you work through the issue, except perhaps a mild benefit from the act of talking about the topic.

And that is likely the biggest driver of venting. Exercising restraint is hard. Protecting other people from the full brunt of our frustration—which is almost always driven by underlying fear, insecurities, and anxiety—takes work. We want to give in to the urge to wallow, to do damage, to invite company into our misery. We also can feel closer to others when we expose them to our raw emotion, and if there’s one reliable truth about human psychology, it’s that we desire connection so much that we’ll take it in negative forms when we can’t get positive ones.

For me, meditation and breathing are by far the most effective ways to deal with negative feelings.