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Talking with a mental health professional can really help you get in touch with your emotions — especially if you’re finding this difficult on your own or with friends or family members. While happiness is considered one of the basic human emotions, the things we think will create happiness tend to be heavily influenced by culture. For example, pop culture influences tend to emphasize that attaining certain things such as buying a home or having a high-paying job will result in happiness.

And you don’t have to get caught up in writing long journal entries or diving into in-depth conversations about your feelings. Just even assigning a single word like “hurt” or “scared” can help reduce the intensity of your emotions. Love, a strong emotion of attachment one feels for someone else. Ranges to family, pets, friends, significant others or fictional characters Our emotions are one of the first ways we learn to communicate to the world. They’re a way to express our inner selves. Emotions can color how we see the world, as well as influence how we make decisions,” says Dr. Childs. In other words, emotions are not states that occur in isolation. Instead, the study suggests that there are gradients of emotion and that these different feelings are deeply inter-related.NARRATOR: Feelings are really important, they're a part of everyone. We feel different things every day. Sometimes we feel happy, and sometimes we feel sad. These are two really good examples of our feelings, but did you know we have many feelings, apart from happy and sad too? An academic study [5] using self-reporting of subjects distinguished 27 discrete emotions named as in the following list: A 2017 meta-analysis investigated the relationships between levels of emotional expression and suppression and social and interpersonal outcomes. Its results suggested that emotion suppression is associated with poorer relationship quality, lower social satisfaction, lower social support, more negative first impressions, and lower social well-being. Wolkowitz OM, Epel ES, Reus VI, Mellon SH. Depression gets old fast: do stress and depression accelerate cell aging? Depress Anxiety. 2010;27(4):327-38. doi:10.1002/da.20686

Jung N, et al. (2014). How emotions affect logical reasoning: Evidence from experiments with mood-manipulated participants, spider phobics, and people with exam anxiety. Psychologist Chivonna Childs, PhD, explains the five basic emotions and why it’s important to talk about them. What are emotions?

This can be extremely insightful for you to investigate where your feelings are coming from in a personalized way with a professional who cares,” Viñas says. Even if you don’t agree with how someone else feels, don’t reject their emotions. And avoid using phrases like “don’t worry,” as that undermines how they feel. Anger can be a particularly powerful emotion characterized by feelings of hostility, agitation, frustration, and antagonism towards others. Like fear, anger can play a part in your body's fight or flight response.

I am learning skills and strategies which will support me in challenging times (HWB 0-07a / HWB 1-07a). We hear a 'ding' sound and the narrators starts to explain emotions. We see animations that match the descriptions the narrator tells us, like someone under a rain cloud feeling lonely and a big dog barking. When you’re able to recognize your emotion for what it is — a piece of information at that moment in time in your life — then you can begin to move forward,” she explains.The dictionary defines enjoyment as ‘the state or process of taking pleasure in something,’” says Dr. Childs. “Enjoyment is like people, very individualized. What one person finds enjoyable, another person may not. Enjoyment can be expressed in several ways such as a smile, a hug, dancing, playing, jumping up and down for joy, verbalized with shouts of joy or sitting in peace watching others enjoy themselves and being happy about that.” Robert Plutchik's theory defines that the eight basic emotions are: [1] Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions While you might easily feel fear when watching that true crime documentary or thinking about giving a work presentation, this emotion can range from mild to severe based on what and how you perceive a threat. These are difficult emotions, but you never need to hide. Share that feeling with someone you trust. You can tell them what's inside. A recent study found that people who perceive feelings like sadness, fear and anger as bad tend to have more anxiety and depression than others who perceive those same bad emotions as appropriate and healthy.