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Is there a word for telling someone all your thoughts? For example, when you've been trying not to talk about something but you end up blurting it all out in one big mess of emotion and it's all over the place and almost desperate. Or just a word that describes someone desperately yelling all their thoughts to no one in particular; they are just getting their thoughts out.

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It's definitely "colloquial", but from Cambridge Dictionaries...

unload - to tell someone about your problems, the things that worry you, etc.
(e.g. - I've been unloading my worries on poor Ann here)


The example usage unloading my worries above clearly shows how this particular metaphoric usage came about in the first place, but almost 2000 written instances of unload on you in Google Books should be sufficient to show that the intransitive usage is well established.

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