Pain, Psychology, Emotional pain, negative emotions
Emotional pain is a feeling of vulnerability and loss in the event of a major crisis in one's life. In its gamut, it includes a feeling of losing a part of oneself, loss of control and brokenness. Emotional pain is considered a consequence of living in a complicated world resulting from the tendency of people denying or avoiding painful feelings. Working with pain is considered by clinicians as an important step in inducing the necessary changes in the inner self and eventually in a person's ability to cope with wife in more satisfying and healthier ways. Major components of emotional pains are considered to be a profound sense of meaninglessness, despair, isolation and hopelessness. Emotional pain tends to isolate one from the contemporary flow of events with one often feeling abandoned or left alone.
Coming from a country in which going to the army is compulsory, I have been recently faced by touch decision of deciding whether to go or not, and how to go about it. The predicament is what takes place in the event that I fail a mandatory medical test administered before one is allowed to go to the army. Recently, this thought and decision is affecting my mindset, and therefore, causing me emotional pain. However, I have been competent to go through various phases associated with working with emotional pain. I have embraced my pain by telling the truth about it, I have opted to do something positive with my pain and released the negative emotions I had held. One thing that I have since been unable to understand is how to derive the benefits associated with pain. I believe I need to learn more about how to consider pain as a source of new vitality, energy and a new positive way of experiencing life; and make it more effective.
[...] However, the question that struck me is why it that in this phase, people feel is angry, confused and afraid. Why is it that persons in this phase may be doubtful of their needs despite having a desire to do something with regards to sexism? Why do People in Gender Role Ambivalence, Confusion, Anger and Fear Phase need to change their gender roles, leave alone, need help for that matter? D6 Wounded Person Cycle I have been on the wounded person cycle in the past and currently am. [...]
[...] Holding on to unresolved anger, rage or pain can result in adverse negative consequences such as negatively and permanently changing a person or a person reinjuring him or herself, and can lead one to do something they would have not wished such as commit a serious crime. Holding in to unresolved anger, pain or rage can set us on an ever downward spiral, and slowly drag as to the rock bottom. Work Cited O'Neil, James M., and Jean Egan. “Men's and Women's Gender responsibility Journeys: A Metaphor for Healing, Transition, and Transformation.” Gender Issues Across the Life Cycle. Ed. [...]
[...] I had no proposal as to the method I could embrace my pain, do something positive with it, shun negative emotions associated with it, or derive the benefits associated with it. Currently, I am experiencing emotional pain the form of a feeling hopelessness, confusion and meaninglessness. I have been able to embrace my pain, opted to do something positive with my pain and released the negative emotions I had held about. The subsequent walk is to try and comprehend how to derive the benefits associated with pain. [...]
[...] Barbara Rubin Wainrib. New York: Springer Publishing Company. 110–123. Print. [...]
[...] Working with Pain Psychology Emotional pain is a feeling of vulnerability and loss in the event of a major crisis in one's life. In its gamut, it includes a feeling of losing a part of oneself, loss of control and brokenness. Emotional pain is considered a consequence of living in a complicated world resulting from the tendency of people denying or avoiding painful feelings. Working with pain is considered by clinicians as an important step in inducing the necessary changes in the inner self and eventually in a person's ability to cope with wife in more satisfying and healthier ways. [...]
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