Healthy
Emotions
Emotions
The strong,
immediate
reactions that you
feel in response to
an experience.
There are
emotions in
everything you do!
Emotions are Powerful
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Can make you
sick
Can affect
sleep
Can affect
eating
Can help you
heal
The Five Major Emotions
Strong
affection or
deep
concern for
another
person
The Five Major Emotions
Anger:
A strong
feeling of
displeasure
The Five Major Emotions
Fear:
A scared
feeling
The Five
Major Emotions
Grief:
A deep sorrow
that is caused by
the loss of
someone or
something that
you cannot get
back.
The Five Major
Emotions
A feeling of having done something
wrong.
Defense Mechanisms
An unconscious thought or behavior used to avoid experiencing
unpleasant emotions.
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Coping strategies to make you feel better and allow one to get
through a tough time.
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If the problem is ignored the more problematic it will become
– therefore it can be dangerous to rely on defense mechanisms
too often!
Defense Mechanisms
Refusal to
accept
reality
Rationalization
 Justifying
behavior
Repression
Blocking out
unpleasant
thoughts
Displacement
Having bad feelings toward someone not
related to the cause of the problem
Projection
Blaming someone
else for your
problem
Compensation
 Making
up for 1 weakness in 1 area
by achieving in another
DayDreaming
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Imagining
pleasant things
that take your
mind off
unpleasant reality
Idealization
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Copying someone you think
highly of because you don’t
feel good about who you are
Regression
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Reacting to
emotions in a child
like or immature
fashion
Sublimation
 Redirecting
negative
impulses into
positive
behavior