Journalling can be a really helpful and beneficial way of expressing how you feel safely. The words can be shared or kept private but instead of things bottling up, or feeling unable to trust someone to share whats happening and what your feeling, writing it out, can be cathartic.
@dancingRainbow45
I agree that writing out your thoughts can allow you to clarify what you are thinking, in a safe manner. If one does not prefer to share their experiences with somebody else related to trauma, by writing them down in a notebook, or in a computer document, this can act as a healing coping mechanism, for one to engage in.
Absolutely it can, it can remain private or when someone feels ready, they could share it. I would always encourage people to think about what they wish to gain by sharing, choose someone safe, perhaps even a counsellor or therapist and only do so when you feel safe enough to do so and you have some degree of trust with the person with whom you may share your private thoughts.
Take boxing and/or MMA classes. Seriously helped me more than anything else.
Writing is also good.
@braveKitten728
Boxing sounds like a good way to try to release negative emotions. I have a Wii Fit board at home, and I also engage in the Wii boxing exercise, as a way to try to relieve tension and stress.
Writing is also a good way to release your thoughts onto paper, in order to clarify them.
It depends on what Is triggering the emotion.
Go running🍃💞
@undefinedbaby
Engaging in vigorous cardio exercise can be a good way to try to release negative emotions. I myself engage in inline skating.
@Mickayla skating is so much fun
May be shopping seems not related... But it works really well... Better if you go with a good freind... It's great... I promise 👌
Never let people get to you with negative thoughts don't let them put you down stand strong
@Iceysealady2424
I agree that it is important to not allow people to bring you down with any negativity, and stay strong after having encountered traumatic experiences, within one's life. Some sound insight here, thank you!
Write a stream of conscious. Not worry about spelling or grammar or anything, just writing what's flowing through my head and then rereading it to reflect back on it.
@spacetrotter13
I agree, writing can act as a therapeutic way for one to vent, and to release their thoughts onto paper, thereby providing a positive way to clarify his or her thoughts.
I try to do constructive things like write or go for walks, but sometimes I just like to nap.
@cryocrayons
Writing sounds like a good way to clarify thoughts, and to vent. Walking sounds like good exercise, which can help to de-stress, and to help to release negative emotions and tension. Naps sound restful. Keep these up!
Take it out on your sibling
my sister does that to me
(don't actually do that smh)
@xxCosmo My sister does the same too. Dealing with it's not really a choice when you're a younger sibling...
@adventurousHouse3522
Hah! Here's the thing: my sister is the younger sibling! Which makes me feel even worse
Can emotions be negative? Isn't it more just that our emotional responses become problematic for us and get in the way of our ability to be effective when they are too intense or when our emotional response doesn't seem to fit the present facts of the situation? Do our emotions really deserve "negative" affixed to them? All of our emotions can be functional and give us important information about our inner experience. I worry that labelling certain emotions as "negative" or "positive" would mean that we would give our attention to some and ignore others; validate some and invalidate others; perhaps even reinforcing avoidance of emotions and the development of secondary emotions (emotions about other emotions; for example, anger over realizing you feel afraid, because you might have the idea that fear is "bad" and you're not allowed to feel it).
As for coping, any number of self-soothing activities could help bring the intensity of the emotion (or emotions) down. I find that different self-soothing activities appeal to me and seem effective depending on what emotion I'm trying to soothe, so I find it helpful to have a big list of ones I've tried before and felt benefit from. Practicing self-soothing activities when I haven't needed it, or when the emotional experience was a low intensity, helps me amass a list of ones that I felt the most relief from. This helps me know which I can rely on to help effectively soothe me so that my list is more likely to be helpful to me when I need reliable soothing the most; when I'm feeling intense emotions and can't think straight.
Mindfulness of what my physiological experience is like can help me understand and associate those bodily responses with the emotion in question (for example, anger makes the area just under my ribcage and my cheeks burn hot). Mindfulness of current emotion can help me put a name to the emotion(s) I am currently experiencing.
Checking the facts and if there are any interpretations or narratives I've placed on the facts of the situation can help me discover if my emotions are impacting my thinking about the facts. I can then change my thinking, if that is the case. This can help change the intensity of my emotional experience, realizing I might have misinterpretted something or added a story to the facts that reminded me of another time when I felt similar emotions (which intensifies and prolongs the emotional experience).
Doing a DBT chain analysis can help in this process; figuring out the prompting event, the emotion triggered, the physiological signs, figuring out just the facts of the situation in plain terms, discovering any interpretations or narratives placed on the facts, identifying the emotional action urge, identifying the action taken.
@Zeraphim
lol emotions can't be negative we love classifying everything don't we haha nice post someone finally said it
