Managing Negative Emotions

By Angel Sheikh

If you are frequently feeling helpless, lonely, or out of control due to the loss of a loved one or stress of any kind, then you need a guide to Managing Negative Emotions.

Life can sometimes knock you down, leaving you lost and unable to control the rush of unwanted thoughts and feelings. It becomes all too easy to feel as though you have no hope of getting your life back on track.

These intensely negative emotions can leave you feeling stressed and unmotivated, decrease your self-confidence, and reduce your overall life satisfaction.

Mental health disorders can also leave you feeling negative about life. If this is the case, you are not alone: Nearly 50% of Americans will deal with a mental disorder in their lifetime.

If you struggle with negative emotions, from daily situations to anxiety disorders, you can overcome those feelings with the help of this book!

Educating yourself on how your mind works through your feelings to arrive at negative thinking is your first step. You can make great changes in your life by strengthening your mental state and introducing positive thinking, and you don't have to do it all alone. You have the help of this guide!

Managing Negative Emotions will help you:

Overcome negative emotions

Beat loneliness

Free yourself from anger

Acknowledge your feelings in a constructive manner

Rediscover how to be happy

...and the list goes on!

There is much more to Managing Negative Emotions than just fighting your feelings. After reading this guide, you will be able to productively navigate the difficult emotions you face in life.

Feeling upset and helpless does not need to be the end of your story; you can change the narrative of your life. Through healthy coping mechanisms and constructive strategies, you will feel happiness again.

Use this book to learn how to manage your emotions and take back control of your life today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angel Sheikh
• Release date: May 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201140489

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Introduction: How to Cope With Negative Emotions

Part of being human is dealing with tragic life events. Everyone has to experience sadness, loneliness, grief, anger, guilt, failure, and stress in their lives. These emotions are normal and can be useful to you because they let you know when you have experienced something painful or are missing something in your life. If you don't know how to handle these emotions and grow from them, they can lead to negative lasting effects on your mental and physical well-being. It's okay to admit that you need help with your negative emotions or thoughts. No one is born with the understanding of how to grow through life; it's something that you have to experience for yourself.

Although everyone experiences negative emotions and thoughts, not everyone is taught how to handle them properly. Even if you do know some of the ways to handle your negative emotions, it's likely very difficult to manage them on your own. If everyone was perfect, life would be easy and everyone would get along. This is just not the world that we live in. Recognizing that you need help learning how to grow as a person is an amazing first step to healing. You should applaud yourself right now for your ability to reach out for help and knowledge. Great job! It isn't an easy thing to admit that you need help, even though every person needs help to learn and grow. Feeling helpless, lonely, sad, angry, stressed, or like you have failed in some way happens to every person. Not every person has the ability to reach out for help when they need it though, unfortunately. Taking those first steps to a better life is scary and hard. You have already taken the hardest step forward. From here on out, making changes in your life will be just a little bit easier. Every step that you take toward working on yourself and growing into happiness will be easier. It won't be easy to take these steps, but every step you take will be just a little bit easier than the last. Then one day, you will wake up to find you have put those traumatic experiences behind you and are on your way to a happy, healthy you.

If you experience any of these emotions on a regular basis, you may have a type of mental illness. However, you don't need to have a mental illness to experience sadness, guilt, failure, or any negative emotion. It's completely normal to go through those emotions whether or not you have a mental illness or not. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020), more than 50% [of Americans] will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime. So on average, at least half of the people living in America will have to manage their mental illness. And that is just the reported cases of mental illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) describes mental illness as a condition that affects a person’s thinking, feeling, mood or behavior, such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. These mental illnesses are caused by traumatic life events and experiences with other physical diseases such as cancer, your genes, chemical imbalances in the brain, or prolonged feelings of loneliness, to name a few. Even if you never have to struggle with a type of mental illness in your lifetime, you will have to experience things like death or personal loss. Because death is a part of life, everyone will have to go through losing someone or multiple people in their lifetime. Death isn't always predictable though, and suddenly losing your loved ones can be a difficult ordeal to live through afterward. The association for international road travel says that approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year [globally]; on average 3,700 people lose their lives every day on the roads. People die before reaching old age every day, it unfortunately is just a sad fact of life. Losing a loved one can be very difficult, but there are ways to grieve and move forward with your life. Most people have lost a job or switched jobs in their lifetime, but last year (2020), there was a large number of people who lost jobs and businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The commonwealthfund.org said, We estimate that as many as 7.7 million workers lost jobs with ESI as of June 2020 because of the pandemic-induced recession, (ESI being health insurance and benefits that employers receive) (Fronstin & Woodbury, 2020).

Although losing a job or business would be a normal difficulty to get through, the pandemic that hit the world in the year 2020 caused many to lose their source of income. Coping with that loss will be difficult; it takes work to manage the negative emotions and stress that arises in that situation. However, if you put in the time and dedication, you can move forward to succeed in the future. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (2017) says that on average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. Abuse can be physical or verbal and can have lasting negative effects on the people who suffer it, long after the abuse is over. Here, you will find the tools to work toward a better future and find closure from hard experiences. These are only a few of the tragic events that can happen in a person's lifetime, but suffering some type of stressor in your life is normal. No one has a perfect life. Everyone will deal with one or more of these types of ordeals in their lives, and managing the negative emotions that will arise can be painful.

It may be disheartening to listen to all the negative events that can happen in your life, but the good news is that you are not alone. There are many different ways to manage your negative emotions and turn your tragic life events into a chance to grow as a person. There are different ways that you can become stronger after going through difficult life events. It takes work and dedication. If it was easy, everyone would be healthy and happy all the time. Unfortunately, that isn't how life works. However, you should never be discouraged. Every day that you push yourself to work through your negative emotions, you will be one step closer to achieving a better and stronger you. When you place your hand on a hot stove, your hand burns and feels pain in response. You need to feel the pain to recognize when something is wrong. The same goes for your emotional state as well. When you feel negative emotions like sadness or guilt, these are indicators that something is missing in your life or has gone wrong. The emotional pain you feel gives you a chance to recognize that you need change and healing. You will have to make an active choice every day to follow the methods of healing and changing for the better.

In this book, you will find that implementing new habits in your life can change your mindset and improve your quality of life. Staying healthy, growing friendships or relationships, keeping a journal, utilizing therapy, and practicing meditation are a few of the tools you will learn about to climb yourself out of your negative state of mind. The Harvard Gazette said, a study by Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist and assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and assistant researcher in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, was the first to document that mindfulness meditation can change the brain’s gray matter and brain regions linked with memory, the sense of self, and regulation of emotions, (Mineo, 2018). This is a direct link to the