Title: How Negative Emotions Affect Us and How to Embrace Them
Headings: How Negative Emotions Affect Us
How Negative Emotions Affect Us
Managing Negative Emotions
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Negative Emotions vs. Positive Emotions
How Do Negative Emotions Affect Us?
Negative Emotions Can Cause Stress
They Also Provide Information
Even Positive Emotions Have Downsides
Strategies for Managing Negative Emotions
Tears
Hope
Additional Strategies
Best Possible Self Exercise
Gratitude Letter or Visit
Taking a Mental Health Day

Content: This is uncomfortable but also can lead to health issues if the stress becomes chronic or overwhelming. 3 ﻿﻿﻿﻿
Nobody likes to feel uncomfortable, so it is natural to want to escape these feelings, and the dangers of unmanaged stress are real. However, there is a feeling that people sometimes have that these emotions will last forever or that the feelings themselves are the problem. They Also Provide Information
More often, these feelings are beneficial because they can also send us messages. For example: Anger and anxiety show that something needs to change and that perhaps our well-being has been threatened. Fear is an appeal to increase your level of safety. Frustration or resentment motivates us to change something in a relationship. Basically, negative emotions are there to alert us that something needs to change and to motivate us to make that change. Even Positive Emotions Have Downsides
Positive psychologists also argue that while there are many benefits to positive emotional states like hope, joy, and gratitude, there are also negative effects that can come from them.