It is really geeky of me to know this, but the original meaning of “catharsis” was in fact a physical purging. Aristotle was the first one to use it to mean an emotional purging or release.
Henry David Thoreau. “I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.”
And Rose is Rose did almost the exact strip, about a decade ago.