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Healthy Ways to Handle Emotions

Learn positive ways to deal with emotions, recognize defense mechanisms, manage fear and anger, and address guilt effectively. Discover qualities that promote emotional health.

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Healthy Ways to Handle Emotions

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  1. HANDLING EMOTIONS IN A HEALTHFUL WAY

  2. Positive Ways to Deal with Emotions • Look below surface of the emotion • Will situation matter as much later (tomorrow, next week, next year) • Do not take action until head and heart have investigated what is going on and what s at stake • Feelings are just feelings • You are not alone • If feeling doesn’t go away seek help

  3. Dealing Healthfully with Emotions • Ways you express emotions has to do with your personality • May express feelings indirectly, with a look or a smile or slamming doors • There are negative ways to deal with emotions that do not solve problem • Exaggerating emotions for effect • Acting them out instead of talking them out

  4. DEFENSE MECHANISMS • Strategies used to deal with strong or stressful emotions and situations • Everyone uses them • Sometimes they occur unconsciously and may be helpful for protecting you from to much pain

  5. Handling fear • Important to identify fears • Confide in someone you trust who may give you a fresh perspective • May be able to help you lesson fear

  6. Managing Anger • Rechannel anger in positive, productive way • Get away by yourself • Have a good cry • Call a friend • Write down feelings • Punch a pillow • Count to ten

  7. COMMON DEFENSE MECHANISMS • Repression – Involuntary, unconscious pushing of unpleasant feelings below the surface and out of conscious thought

  8. SUPRESSION • Conscious, intentional pushing of unpleasantness from one’s mind

  9. RATIONALIZATION • Making excuses to try to explain a situation or behavior rather than directly taking responsibility for it

  10. Regression • Reverting or turning back to behaviors more characteristic of a younger person

  11. DENIAL • Unconscious, involuntary lack of acknowledgement of something in one’s environment that is obvious to others

  12. COMPENSATION • Wanting to cover up weaknesses and mistakes by making up for them through gift giving, hard work or other extreme efforts

  13. PROJECTION • Being unaware of attributing one’s own feelings or faults to another person or group even when these attributes don not apply

  14. IDEALIZATION • Seeing someone else as perfect or more ideal, or worthy than everyone else

  15. DEALING WITH GUILT • Must address the underlying source and issue • The sooner the better • Guilt feeds on itself causing a snowball effect

  16. QUALITIES THAT CAN FOSTER EMOTIONAL HEALTH • YOUR OUTLOOK ON LIFE • RESILIENCY

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