No I agree with you, no emotions are negative. They all have a purpose, and are a personal message to you (not anyone else). Boredom is a wind up machine for future prospects, that’s where you develop your sense of who you are and want to be. And if you want to be a crazy inventor, grab a white lab coat, mess up your hair and get yourself some Boredom. Anger can fire action to improve your situation. Or, you know if you happen to have a lot of money and no relatives, grab yourself a black rubber suit with wings.

I could go on. But all emotions are a message for you from your sense systems. They’re always reading the room, they’re non verbal, emotional alarm systems are the way they tell you a room is on fire or full of flowers.

It’s when you get stuck in an emotion that can be problematic. Rumination, or inability to emotionally process those emotions can cause life to feel super uncomfortable. And you can absolutely ask for help from someone who went to school to learn the mysterious ways of the emotional brain.

Emotions are kinda like a more sensitive and intricate alert system for danger approaching, as opposed to the more sledge hammer version provided by your fight or flight systems (all the same place).

If you don’t notice your emotions, bottle or ignore your emotions, they feel unheard, and what does any alert system do if it’s mildly sentient and feels like their danger alarts didn’t get heard? They just get louder until they feel like you got the message.

So whilst absolutely all emotions are a full and complete part of the human experience and can be vital and essential to life’s progression and an assistance, they can also start going defcon 5 over the toast being burnt, and therefore need some recalibration.

And then there’s emotional immaturity…

Sodium hypochlorite is just standard bleach. I’ve never used it for taking stains out of clothing, I know some people do. It’s more a last option, than first go to for machine cleaning. I wouldn’t recommend it because it *can errode plastics and rubbers, relatively quickly, especially if not rinsed well at certain concentrates, that you would come close to needing to clean the machine. Whereas the oxygen bleach won’t errode the plastics or rubbers, and should effectively dissolve any biological contaminants.

Here’s what I’d do, if wanting to try to salvage using the machine.

1. Wipe clean, and agitate whatever dirt or sludge in the grooves you can see on the door, gasket, and barrel.
2. Set a tub clean cycle or hottest wash setting available.
3. Check if that worked. If not…
4. Try deep cleaning the machine with oxygen bleach, or oxy bleach it might be called. Run a wash super hot, with soak options. That’s the least corrosive, or damaging to clothing or machine, it’s also the chemical components least likely to cause trouble with any other so I’d start with that. It’s a super awesome component to have in your laundry, anyway, it gets out sweat, blood, stains brightens, great stuff. (sodium hypochlorite, common bleach and the limescale cleaners or standard washing machine cleaners conflict to make dangerous gasses so I’m going to suggest those as a last option).
5. Still having issues, it might have to have its drain filter cleaned, and possibly professionally, but you could check what a replacement is and just break it off, without harming the surrounding casing. Can’t clean the filter or any of those options?
6. Try either limescale remover (standard washing machine cleaner) or standard bleach, (sodium hypochlorite) but not both. Although the smell of that bleach might stay in the machine, and at high concentrates might cause damage. If you use one, don’t use the other, they react badly together.
7. None of that works? Give up and buy a small hand crank machine, something you can spin, or go to the laundromat?

Sodium percarbonate is a mixture of Sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide, that’s an oxy bleach, which is essentially super alkaline, it will kill proteins (urine, some vomit, grease, blood, faeces etc) but it’s more so designed to do so on clothing, it is the least harmful bleach on clothing, (except certain materials like wool or silk, it will absolutely harm natural fibres,as that’s what it targets, kinda)

For woollens, silks etc use wool wash only. And use a very small amount, you only need a teaspoon to a tablespoon amount in a full washing machine load.

If you go to websites, you will find the ingredients or active compounds of different detergents, brand names might put the price up for the brand preference, but you want to look for something that’s not too cheap, a slightly more expensive brand (not crazy expensive, just mid prices) would have more put into the working efficacy of the product.

Less or no fragrance, never use fabric softener. It quite often shortens the length of your products and worse.

You can use laundry sanitiser, in place of fabric softener which I would highly recommend when using a communal machine, canestan make one.

IF YOU WANT TO TACKLE CLEANING THE MACHINE.

The smell is likely coming from built up skin, hair, fluff decomposing in the machine. If you fold back the gasket (rubber door seal bit) and have a look in the grooves, what does it look like? What does the machine smell like in the drum? Which model is it?

Once I found the answers to these questions, I would look up the model and the cleaning recommendations. Follow them, you probably want a toothbrush to get in the grooves, and give it a losen run a tub clean cycle, or hottest wash WITH NO DETERGENT. See what happens, did that improve the situation?

Still awful? Some machines can tolerate and recommend vinegar, which can do a lot for killing the fungal elements, mould etc. But check if the machine recommends it first. If not, you can get descaler from a store (labelled washing machine cleaner specifically) and run that.

If you can’t remove the drain filter, the question I would be asking is, does it still drain, if yes, use it, if no, it might need a technician to deep clean and remove, troubleshoot and replace any parts not working (find out who you talk to about getting that going?)

I would pick a couple of rag towels or something you don’t care about and run a quick wash to see how it comes out.

If you do get the drum clean, and remove the smell enough, good to go, and I would carry a rag to wipe out the gasket before and after use, to slow that sludge and mould build up, they can get.

I’m assuming front loader, because you showed a front loader yt clip, let me know if you need tips on top loader.

My ex used to laugh about how he would purposefully piss on public toilet seats. Absolute sociopath. I guess Dennis was giving us some screening questions.