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How to identify emotional distress?




What are the four main emotions?


  • Joy

  • Fear

  • Anger

  • Sadness


An emotion is a complex psychological state that involves three distinct components -


  • A subjective experience

  • A physiological response

  • A behavioural or expressive response


Emotions are the mental states brought on by neurophysiological change, various associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses.


Every emotional disturbance manifest as diseases. Emotion is also linked to behavioural tendency.


The mental wounds are closed and there is no significant pain.




Healing emotions and also changing negative thoughts will allow to assemble all the deep broken parts of oneself.


Signs of emotional suffering and distress -


  • Personality change in a way that seem different for that person

  • Withdrawl or isolation from others

  • Feeling helpless or hopeless

  • Becoming aggressive

  • Pulling away from people and things

  • Hopelessness or feeling of being overwhelmed and worthless

  • Watching a lot of the time, feeling guilty but not sure why

  • Eating or sleeping too much or too little

  • Avoiding family and friends

  • Having low or no energy

  • Anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, eating disease

  • Thinking of hurting or killing yourself or someone else

  • Psychotic disorders, panic attacks

  • Having difficulty concentrating

  • Crying spells or bursts of anger



Consider Emotional Healing


Emotional healing is a process of accepting all your painful life experiences and the negative emotional reactions which are generated from them.


It helps you to -

  • Deal with the distress immediately

  • Identify core issues with pain

  • Identify when the problem started

  • Seek support and don’t isolate yourself

  • Make a list of all issues you can remember

  • Identify and replace unhealthy thought patterns

  • Triggers or life events

  • Forgive yourself and others




Find a good therapist. They can help you through the dark days probably better than anyone else. That is what they are trained to do.

Life really is better when you heal your distress. Just keep trying.

Don’t give up on yourself without trying for at least a couple of weeks.


We are powerful creators of our own life reality and we benefit from taking responsibility for our own emotions, health, happiness and healing.



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