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• Unload Emotional Baggage:  Take a minute to unload whatever’s been bringing you down. Big or small, doesn’t matter. Sometimes it just helps to get it out there and know someone heard it.
• Help Remove Someone Else’s Emotional Baggage:  Take a minute to read about someone else’s issues. Then choose a song to help get them through the pain. We’ll send it along to them.

It’s pretty cool!

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Many people struggle, or completely avoid, dealing with their angry outbursts. We all experience this negative emotion, but how does one deal with it or redirect such anger in a healthier way?

• Re-channel anger through positive and productive activities such as painting drawing, or sewing. However, if a more physical approach is needed, hammering, cleaning, or exercise such as running have proved to work just as well.
• Go and hide away alone and cry it out if you need to. Often times anger is just a mask for something else such as sadness.
• Call someone and talk about it to them. Generally people are more understanding if they weren’t directly involved.
• Write down exactly how you’re feeling. Let it all out. No one else needs to see it, and you could even throw it away in order to help yourself move on from the negative into the positive.
• Punch into a pillow (not a concrete wall), or even count to ten.

Remember: Becoming angry with people is completely normal, and is even more common among people you spend the most time with. In order to clear the air you must let the emotion out and recognize it. Suppressing an emotion will allow it to linger on and subconsciously affect your relationship with other people, which lowers social health.

Source: Glencoe Health: A Guide to Wellness (8th Edition, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill)

First off, it is important that you can identify just what is scary to you along with the people who you may confide in for comfort in dealing with such fears by providing you with a fresh, encouraging, and positive outlook. After all, if you don’t really know what you’re afraid of, how can you deal with it? (Trust me, I know people that seriously do not know what they’re afraid of, they’re just afraid.)

If you are unable to deal with fear on your own, the help of another can assist in finding a constructive way to overcome, or at the least lessen, your fear. (Or suggest to you another resource.) Everyone has had their fears and it’s nearly guaranteed that you’ll continue to find certain things scary or “too different” in your life. Therefore, it is crucial for one to learn how to properly handle fear in order to have positive mental and emotional health.

Information found within Glencoe Health: A Guide to Wellness (8th Edition, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill)

Defense mechanisms are strategies utilized in order to deal with strong or stressful emotional situations. However, it should be noted that being overly defensive can hold one back from facing problems that cause major stresses in life.

Common Defense Mechanisms:

Repression

• Involuntary, unconscious pushing of unpleasant feelings beneath the surface and outside of conscious thought.

Suppression

• The conscious and intentional removal of unpleasantness from the mind.

Rationalization

• Crafting excuses in an attempt to explain a situation or behavior rather than taking direct responsibility.

Regression

• Reverting back to the behaviors that are characteristic of an earlier stage of development rather than dealing with it in a mature manner. (IE: Being immature.)

Denial

• The unconscious and involuntary disregard of something within one’s environment that is otherwise obvious to others.

Compensation

• A desire to mask one’s weaknesses and mistakes through generosity, diligence, or other extreme efforts.

Projection

• Oblivion towards one’s own feelings or faults to others when such attributes do not apply.

Idealization

• Perceiving someone as the epitome of what one wants to be, or perfect compared to all others.