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Journal # 16. What do you think? Is it easier for girls or boys to express their feelings and emotions? Who do you believe is more aware of the emotional aspects of life? Why do you feel this way? What are some reasons one may talk more than the other about their feelings? .
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Journal # 16 • What do you think? • Is it easier for girls or boys to express their feelings and emotions? • Who do you believe is more aware of the emotional aspects of life? • Why do you feel this way? • What are some reasons one may talk more than the other about their feelings?
Understanding Emotions and Handling them In A Healthful Way December 14, 2012
I Gotta Feeling …. • Emotions- • Signals that tell your body and mind how to react. • Neither good or bad. • During adolescence, hormones affect your emotions the most.
The Voices in My Head • Neurotransmitters- Chemicals that carry messages between the brain and other parts of the body. • Allow nerves to “talk” to one another. • Serotonin: helps regulate sleep, mood, and anxiety levels. • Noradrenalin: provides energy. • Dopamine: helps you regulate pain and experience pleasure.
Identifying Emotions • Love- involves strong affection, deep concern, and respect for others and yourself. • Empathy- the ability to imagine and understand how someone else may think or feel. • Fear- can be a safe guard or protection if you are responding to a real threat. • Anger-may be displayed as annoyance or rage. • Can be controlled • May turn into Hostility: the intentional use of unfriendly or nasty behavior • Guilt- an emotional response when you think you have done something wrong .
How Do I Deal ??? • There are negative and positive ways of handling emotions. • Defense Mechanisms- strategies used to deal with strong or stressful emotions and situations.
Repression- involuntary, unconscious pushing away of unpleasant feelings below the surface and out of conscious thought. • Suppression- conscious, intentional pushing of unpleasant thoughts from one’s mind. • Rationalization-making excuses to try to explain a situation or behavior rather than taking responsibility. • Regression-turning back to behaviors of early adolescence rather than dealing with the conflict in a age appropriate manner.
Denial-involuntary lack of acknowledging a situation when it is obvious to others. • Compensation-wanting to cover up mistakes by making it up through giving gifts or over compensating in another area. • Projection- attributing one’s own feelings or thoughts to another individual or group even when they do not apply. • Idealization-seeing someone else as perfect or more ideal, or worthy than anyone else.
How to Deal ??? • Rechannel your anger. • Get away by yourself. • Call a friend. • Write down how you are felling. • Punch a pillow, count to ten, use a stress ball, go for a jog.
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall … • How one views their overall outlook on life. • Having the ability to adapt and recover from disappointment. • Resiliency • The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.
Phone Booth Scenarios • Groups of 3 • Person #1: Pretend you are in this situation and explain how you would feel and respond. • Person #2: Using the ACT technique and your notes to respond and give advise to person #1 • Person #3: Was healthy advise given? Why or why not? What are some things you would change? • Each person should write at least a paragraph worth of responses.
