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llaw8000
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as I've turned vegan I've started to hate everyone. I'm getting more and more aggressive, it's hard to think straight around my family,friends and strangers. please help me.
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brimstoneSalad
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llaw8000 wrote:as I've turned vegan I've started to hate everyone. I'm getting more and more aggressive, it's hard to think straight around my family,friends and strangers. please help me.
Learn a little bit of psychology, and you'll realize that humans are guided in their behaviors mainly by ignorance and rationalization, not malice.

This is a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Some videos on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korGK0yGIDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqONzcNbzh8

It's a disease of irrationality; one of the way people think, and it has to be overcome on that level.
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