Decoding Emotions: A Key to Better Mental Health

Understanding our emotions and other people’s emotions is key to regulating how we feel, forming relationships with others, and responding positively to situations. Although there can be tough times in your life that lead to unpleasant feelings, thoughts, or actions, decoding emotions, what makes you feel a certain way, and how to deal with both positive and negative emotions is crucial to moving forward.

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Emotional Health and Well-Being

Being able to decipher your emotions, understanding your emotional ‘health’, and tailoring your response to a situation to your current state of mind is imperative to coping with changes in your life. Learning how to move forward, when it comes to both positive and negative scenarios/mindsets, helps you know how to cope and when to ask someone for professional help.

Emotional wellness is directly related to your physical state. Your emotions play a huge role in how you feel as a whole — that is why stress, anxiety, and negativity can all manifest in other physical issues, such as high blood pressure, elevated heart rate, or tension headaches. Although negative emotions do not directly cause these issues, an inability to deal with negative emotions at the onset can lead to long-term health concerns.

Signs of Emotional Distress

If you have trouble dealing with your emotions, this might seem okay at the moment, but it can lead to long-term issues if not addressed. Understanding your emotions and developing coping skills is essential to maintaining emotional, psychological, and physical balance.

Some signs that you may need to seek professional help are isolation from your social circle, drops in energy, excessive sleeping, insomnia, overeating, undereating, substance abuse, anxious thoughts, reduced work performance, interpersonal conflicts, irritability, and neglected hygiene.

Work on Your Emotions and Mental Health

Although it might feel like everything is overwhelming at the moment, you can learn coping skills and healthy methods to improve your emotions and mental health.

• Balance — Living a balanced life is one of the best ways to regulate your emotional well being and feel better about yourself. You can strike a wholesome balance between work, fun, and social activities by being active, eating well, spending quality time with loved ones, and resting when you need to.
• Connect — Don’t isolate yourself if you are feeling down, sad, depressed, tense, or anxious. Instead, reach out to those closest to you or people who you know you can talk to for advice or help.
• Self-talk practice — Your self-talk, or the way in which you talk to yourself or think about yourself, directly impacts your frame of mind. Changing a negative mindset to a positive one can help you not only feel better about yourself, but change your actions into more positive ones.
• Set goals — Setting small goals that are attainable and measurable and working towards them helps you stay focused and gives you something to aim for. These small victories help you build self-confidence and feel better about where you are headed in life.

Disclaimer: This article is intended simply to provide information. It does not replace the medical advice of a physician. Please speak with your doctor if you have any questions or concerns.

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This article was written by Emma Starr.