EruptedCarcassBloat Wrote:It seems very hard to control your own emotions. If something makes me upset, sometimes I am able to just choose something different to focus on to take my mind off the thing that's making me upset. But then other times it's extremely difficult to get off the negative thoughts, and I just get caught in a vortex which I guess leads to depressed moods.
Thank you for creating such a wonderful topic, EruptedCarcassBloat. For me, when I experience negative emotions, I find that the best thing to do is to acknowledge them. By acknowledging negative emotions, it validates them and allows me to think about why I am upset; rather than immediately acting on them. Thus, this approach allows me to trace my negative emotions back to some story I had told myself, which then caused me to experience the negative emotion. Hence, by resolving inner conflict and negative emotions in this way, it has allowed me to improve my ability to tell more constructive stories, which leads to less conflicting emotions and more positive/constructive behavior on my part, especially when I am in conflict with myself or others.
