Topic: Emotions
Sub-Topic: Expressing Emotions
Samantha Costenbader

1. Americans have a hard time learning how to self-heal when dealing with depression. From experience, comforting you and friends around you is strenuous and sometimes it is difficult to make someone/yourself overcome some emotions so, other people with greater education and values help us seek further and endure into healing deeper to the core in order to fulfil the “hole” we feel when depressed. * A growing number of Americans pay millions of dollars to therapist and self-help groups so they can divulge their secrets. * A large percentage of people write about their very deepest thoughts and feeling sin diaries or letters but do not disclose the personal sides of themselves to the close friends they see every day.
Pennebaker, James W. "Opening Up: The Healing of Expressing Emotions." The Healing of Expressing Emotions (1990): 1. Google Scholar. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. https://books-google-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/books?hl=en&lr=&id=U2doiTNg134C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=facts+expressing+emotions&ots=oMBfr8Wg7j&sig=4GyZsOjegZQ4BFjAWuZD73IVSGM#v=onepage&q=facts%20expressing%20emotions&f=false 2. Many people think being lost into their own “state of mind” helps their emotions soften as they are able to create images with their emotions that resemble their inner feelings. * Art can be a record of what the artist is feeling and, at the same time, it can bring about emotional reactions in the viewer. In the 20th century, this type of art has been called Expressionist Art.
Atkins, Robert. Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present. 2d ed. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997. 3. Feelings are contagious. If you spend time with a depressed person, you may start to feel sad and even cry. * Similarly, you can catch other person’s enthusiasm and excitement. You can be inspired by living and interacting with positive people. When you withhold your feelings of anger and sadness, they can overpower you and make you depressed therefore it is very important to be in touch with your feelings.
Shrivastava, R. (2012, June 21). Learn How to Identify. Retrieved February 20, 2016, from http://www.cognitivehealing.com/depression/learn-how-to-identify-and-express-your-feelings 4. Sometimes, it is healthy to engage in vigorous work out to vent some of the stress you feel when you are withholding anger. Pounding on the pillow, screaming into a pillow can also help if your anger is really intense and you need to let go of the energy before you confront the person who is making you angry. * 84% of teenagers say their easiest way to sweat out their emotions is to go to the gym and take time to reflect upon their emotions as a strength to push themselves to new boundaries in the physical field.
Shrivastava, R. (2012, June 21). Learn How to Identify. Retrieved February 20, 2016

5. In 1904, Picasso's work regains its romantic quality in a series of paintings in warmer colors, many of them in the color pink. Picasso's Rose Period paintings still show resignation, but no mourning and while his Blue Period paintings seem to serve to express Picasso's sorrow
Wilkins, J. (2009). Pablo Piccasso's Rose Period. 1904-1906, 29-32. Retrieved February 21, 2016. 6. Women and men both scientifically have different ways of coping. There are many men who say their way of getting anger out usually results in them punching something or breaking a nearby statue. Women are more prone to crying and keeping to themselves as a more soft side, as men are more anger prone with any type of sadness.
In fact, women's anger usually centers on their most intimate relationships--their husbands, their mothers, their best friends, says Thomas, who has interviewed both men and women extensively about their anger. "Anger for women is intermingled with hurt and painbecause they cannot understand how a person they are close to could behave a certain way. We never, ever interviewed a woman who didn't mention her partner. Never."
"If you're aware you're angry, stop and ask, “What do I need to do about this?" advises Stabb. "Taking time to calm down is important because it gives you time to process the information your emotions are telling you."
Foltz-Gray, D. (2011). Mind Body Depression. Go Ahead...Get Mad, 1-3. Retrieved February 20, 2016. 7. Expressing emotion within a partnership is sometimes more difficult due to the abundant emotions that are running through. It is easier to release more anger just as it is release love because it is all the same emotions that are ran together. * For example, people may strategically express more sadness or distress than they are experiencing when in the presence of a communal partner in the hopes of receiving support, getting out of an undesired task, or being reassured that their relationship really is communal. They do so precisely because the other is likely to care.
Clark, M., & Finkel, E. (2011). The Social Life of Emotions. Strategic Emotion Expression, 110-111. Retrieved February 20, 2016. 8. Denying emotions can lead to a bigger stressor in life that will ultimately just add up to denial. It is easier to cope with things in small increments than it is to deal with things as just one giant collision of emotions. So, let the emotions come and instead of just pushing them away, deal with them. * Allow yourself to be sad. Denying such feelings may force them underground, where they can do more damage with time. Cry if you feel like it. Notice if you feel relief after the tears stop. * Think about the context of the sad feelings. Are they related to a loss or an unhappy event? Think about the feelings in a non-judging way and ride the wave of the experience.

Beline, J.(2016). Healthy ways to deal with sadness. Releasing Inner, 12(22),14-20. Retrieved February 21, 2016 9. Having a negative outlook towards your emotions and were they can lead you it is easier to have appositive outlook and be able to express your emotions in ways that will help uplift you and your body-mind. If you are saying to yourself how bad of a day you are going to have because you are angry than chances are you are more than likely going to have a bad day. * As we have seen, previous research has yielded inconsistent findings regarding the interpersonal effects of anger and happiness on negotiation behavior, with some studies showing that anger (as opposed to happiness) elicits competition (e.g., small concessions), and other studies showing that anger elicits cooperation (e.g., large concessions). * a counterpart’s anger or happiness are likely to be interpreted as signaling (dis)satisfaction with one’s offer, which negotiators can use to track the counterpart’s limits ( Pruitt, 1981) and modify their bargaining behavior accordingly. Thus, when the opponent’s emotions are directed toward the focal negotiator’s offers or demands, we expect the focal negotiator to react strategically by conceding more to an angry opponent than to a happy one.
***basically reverse psychology
Steinela, W. (2008). Are You Talking to Me?! Present Study, 22(4), 362-369. Retrieved February 21, 2016.

10. Negative emotions that patients work hard to avoid include fear, shame, and guilt. Further, experiencing feelings in the present often triggers painful memories from the past. The group member represses feeling in order to keep memories from coming to the surface of consciousness.

* Positive therapeutic norms established as the group is forming provide the foundation of safety for the members (Yalom, 1995). When such norms have been firmly established, the group members have a commitment to one another, strive for empathic resonance among themselves and with the leader, and value individuality and self-expression over conformity. This empathic milieu, which includes working through empathic failures, conflicts, and disappointments, allows the group members to bear painful emotions
Suzanne L. Cohen (1997) Working with Resistance to Experiencing and Expressing Emotions in Group Therapy, International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 47:4, 443-458