Lesson 4 How do you deal with your emotions? Managing Emotions.

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How do you deal with your emotions?

Managing Emotions

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Learning to recognize emotions and deal with them in healthful ways are especially important to good mental health.

Managing Emotions

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Evaluate the positive and negative effects of peers, family, and friends on emotional health.

Demonstrate strategies for communicating emotions and needs in healthful ways.

In this lesson, you’ll learn to:

Lesson Objectives

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Responding to Your Emotions

Some strategies for interpreting and responding to most emotions:

Look below the surface.

Consider the situation.

Consider the consequences.

Use positive feelings.

Seek help.

Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways

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Look Below the Surface

Look below the surface of your emotion. Ask yourself:

What am I really reacting to?

Does the intensity of my emotion match the situation?

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Consider the Situation

Consider whether or not the situation to which you are reacting will matter tomorrow, next week, or next year.

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Consider the Consequences

Don’t take action on a strong feeling until you have thoroughly considered the possible consequences of your action.

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Use Positive Feelings

Use positive feelings to inspire yourself.

Relieve negative or upsetting feelings by engaging in physical activities or by talking to a family member.

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Seek Help

If a negative feeling doesn’t go away, seek help from a parent, another trusted adult, or a health care professional.

Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways

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Dealing with Intense Emotions

Take slow, deep breaths and relax when you feel your emotions building.

Write in a private journal or play music.

Get away from the situation to compose yourself.

Control your feelings by analyzing the situations that cause them.

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Defense Mechanisms

You may try to avoid the emotions that cause you discomfort by using defense mechanisms.

For instance, the use of suppression can provide a temporary escape from an unpleasant situation.

In the long run, however, defense mechanisms may keep you from facing what is really troubling you.

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Common Defense Mechanisms

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Identify your fear.

Analyze the situation that causes fear.

Talk about your fear

with someoneyou trust.

Handling Fear

Fear is an emotion many people work to overcome. Overcoming fear requires a strategy.

Some fear is healthy and natural; only when fear is irrational or uncontrollable should you consider it a problem.

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Dealing with Guilt

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Try to get at the underlying source of your guilt and address that issue.

Resolve to be more careful and responsible in the future.

Discuss the situation with family or friends.

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Managing Anger

The first step in constructively dealing with anger is similar to

dealing with guilt: try to get at the underlying source and

address it.

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Q. List the strategies for interpreting, responding to, and

communicating an emotion or need in healthful ways.

Provide a short answer to the question given below.

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A. The strategies for interpreting, responding to, and communicating an emotion or need in healthful ways:

Look below the surface of your emotion.

Consider whether the situation will matter later.

Consider the consequences before acting.

Be inspired by positive feelings.

Seek help for persistent negative feelings.

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Provide a short answer to the question given below.

Q. What are five common defense mechanisms?

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A. The common defense mechanisms are:

Repression

Suppression

Rationalization

Regression

Denial

Compensation

Projection

Idealization

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Provide a short answer to the question given below.

Q. What are some ways of managing strong emotions?

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A. You can learn to manage strong emotions by using the

following methods:

Take slow, deep breaths and relax when you feel your emotions building.

Get away from the situation to compose yourself.

Control your feelings by analyzing the situations that cause them.

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Discuss the question given below.

Describe the results that may occur when you take time to reflect before responding to a strong emotion.

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You may try to avoid the emotions that cause you discomfort by using defense mechanisms.

For instance, the use of suppression can provide a temporary escape from an unpleasant situation.

In the long run, however, defense mechanisms may keep you from facing what is really troubling you.

Managing Difficult Emotions

A defense mechanism is a mental process that protects an individual from strong or stressful emotions and situations.

A defense mechanism is a mental process that protects an individual from strong or stressful emotions and situations.

Defense Mechanisms

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You may try to avoid the emotions that cause you discomfort by using defense mechanisms.

For instance, the use of suppression can provide a temporary escape from an unpleasant situation.

In the long run, however, defense mechanisms may keep you from facing what is really troubling you.

Defense Mechanisms

Managing Difficult Emotions

Suppression is defined as the act of holdingback or restraining.

Suppression is defined as the act of holdingback or restraining.