🤔 Searching for functional coping strategies when it comes to affection and emotion (or lack thereof) are a frequent issue in the psychotherapeutical process.
📚For example: Did you know that Winston Chrchill started his life as a love-starved child whose lonely childhood set the stage for his almost fanatical need for influence and power?
💔Neglected emotions can cause serious problems in relationships. One of the ways in which this manifests itself is ‘affect’ during which we experience a decreased level of selfcontrol and self-reflection. ‘Affect’ or an emotive outburst, is a sudden, very strong, strormy but short emotion. There is usually a strong inner motivation to vent one´s emotions on as the racio is bottled up and sidelined, and there are little to no rational, logical restraints during these phases. Strong feelings of guilt and shame follow after such an episode.
😤It is important to mention that to feel negative emotions is natural. It helps to keep mental balance. On the other hand to bottle emotions up is an unhealthy strategy.
🧑💻Long time stress, provoking factors, frustrations of any kind – those are situations when even people who are usually non-conflict personalities and are socially well adapted can fail.
✌️Psychotherapy basically works with two intertwined approaches to fight these types of destructive affects.
1️⃣ The first way is more complex and analytical and is focused on the client´s personality and the past (level of emotional stability, impulsivity, level of stress and capacity to deal with it).This approach tries to find resources of non-functional behavioral patterns. 🌀The client is then able to understand the history of the emotional trauma, personal stress escape strategies and what are the key triggers of the affects. Essentially, they understand their triggers in a much more holistic context.
2️⃣ The second way is more practical and the therapeutical approach varies from training of personal determination and self-discipline to analyse, name and express of emotions, consists of various vizualization techniques, technique of forgiveness, situation framing and a „steam pot“ 🍲 process, mental hygiene, keeping distance, understanding the physical and psychological signals which can trigger unpleasant situations.
🕵️♀️It is important not to ignore emotions but understand them.
💥 Are emotions something which interests you and which you feel you could benefit having a better grasp of in your personal and professional life? I am happy to help with that
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