Emotions

What are Emotions?

• Emotions are the strong, immediate reactions that you feel in response to an experience.– Reactions to any situation can be good or bad.• Mad about playing badly in a football game, but the

team still wins.• Happy because family member passed away from a bad

disease, like cancer.

What’s Love? (got to do with it)

• A strong affection or deep concern for another person.– Types of Love• Friendship

– Trust and loyalty

• Family– Bonds between people of the same family

• Marriage– Bonds created between two strangers

Anger

• A strong feeling of displeasure, can range from slight annoyance to furious hostility.– Hostility• Expression of anger towards someone

Fear

• Reaction to danger. Can range from just a little nervous to paralyzing terror.– Phobias• Fear of a specific object or event.

– Arachnophobia – Fear of spiders– Aerophobia – Fear of flying– Triskaidekaphobia – Fear of the number 13

Envy and Jealousy

• Envy– The fear of not having something someone else

has.• Friend gets new car, you don’t have a car

• Jealousy– Fear of losing something.• Commonly happens with couples

Guilt

• Feeling of having done something wrong– Can be helpful• If you do something, feel guilty about it, maybe it was

wrong.

Grief

• Deep sorrow that is caused by the loss of someone or something– Everyone goes through stages of grief.– Stages can begin before the actual loss.– Stages can be longer or shorter compared to other

stages.

Stages of Grief

• Shock and disbelief– Do not believe that the event has happened

• Emotional Release– Crying, physical outburst are typical releases

• Depression and loneliness– Feel out of contact with daily events

• Physical Distress– Body begins to hurt. (High blood pressure, heart

burn)

Stages of Grief (cont.)

• Guilt– Experience of feeling of regret and want to change the past

• Hostility and Resentment– Express anger to others

• Dejection– Unable to return to usual activities.

• Reconciliation– Takes positive steps to adjust to changed life.

• Adaptation– Recognizes that life continues.