1. Strong immediate reactions that you feel in response to an experience
Emotions
Strong immediate reactions that you feel in response to an experience

2. Healthy Emotions
Part of being mentally healthy is being able to express the following emotions in a constructive way.
What does constructive mean?

3. LOVE A strong affection or deep concern for another person is love.
Express through:
Touch
Words
Actions

4. Kinds of LOVE Friendship Family Marriage Respect Materialistic
* Realize the difference between obsession, infatuation and LOVE

5. Obsession Compulsive fixation on a person, feeling, idea etc.
Unhealthy emotion
Does not equal love
Can lead to harm towards self or others

6. Infatuation Feelings are extremely intense
Miserable when we are not with the person we care about
Jealous
Has more to do with hormones than with love
More interested in your feelings than the feelings of another

7. LOVE Unconditionally care for the person
Still love them even when you’re angry at them
Do not experience unhealthy levels of jealousy
You know everything about the person and still love them for their faults
You care more about their feelings than your own

8. ANGER
Strong feeling of displeasure that can range from annoyance to complete fury.
Frustration
Hostility
Defense
Rage

9. How should you deal with Anger?
Write down your feelings
Talk to someone
Punch a pillow
Take a deep breath
DO NOT ignore it
DO NOT let it take control of you
Anger only feeds anger
YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR ANGER. IF YOU COULDN’T YOU WOULD ALWAYS BE ANGRY!

10. FEAR You feel fear when you believe you are in danger
Physical reaction
ANXIETY- a fear of the unknown. Makes you feel nervous, and ill at ease
Causes of anxiety or fear include: stress, repeating an unpleasant experience

11. How should you handle your fears?
Talk about it
Face your fear
Plan ahead

12. GRIEF Deep sorrow caused by the loss of someone or something
Natural emotion, not negative.
5 stages of grief
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
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13. GUILT A feeling of having done something wrong
Can be positive or negative emotion
Can lead to depression
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