Emotions that control us: How to avoid the traps of anger, guilt, and sadness. Cognitive-behavioral approach.

- The importance of life and understanding the seven basic human emotions: fear, sadness, anger, disgust, guilt, shame, and happiness. - Emotional traps we get stuck in and how to get out of them. - Based on the science of emotions and cognitive-behavioral therapy. - Examples and exercises for self-work. Why do we get angry? Is depression just very strong sadness? What to do if you are tormented by shame or fear? Where are the boundaries of mental health? A guide to emotions that you hold in your hands will help find answers to these questions. Practicing clinical psychologist Lawrence Howells elaborately describes the seven basic human emotions - fear, sadness, anger, disgust, guilt, shame, and happiness - and explains how to learn to live with them. In the book, he describes seven "emotional traps" that arise when we get used to reacting to life events non-constructively, and explains how to find a way out of them. Drawing on cognitive-behavioral therapy methods, the author offers readers effective exercises and vivid examples that will help learn to understand and accept emotions, become happier, and support loved ones. The book will also be useful for professionals in helping professions - psychologists, doctors, teachers, social workers. Quotes "By understanding and accepting emotions, reacting to them constructively, and knowing how to get out of emotional traps, we get everything we need for a healthy and fulfilling life. These are the tools that this book offers." "When emotions start causing discomfort and problems, it's not because we are 'sick' or fundamentally different from others, but because we have difficulties reacting to emotions. These difficulties lead us into emotional traps that hinder and disrupt normal life." "One of the negative aspects of a psychiatric diagnosis is that its establishment sometimes generates incorrect ideas about emotions, such as 'normal people do not experience such feelings' or 'if I am sad, then I have depression.' By rejecting your emotions, expecting therapy to help get rid of them, or hoping that someone will fix everything, you may encounter problems and fall into an emotional trap." "Emotional traps are cycles (closed loops) or patterns of response to emotions that make us repeatedly experience emotions according to a negative scenario and react to them counterproductively. This leads to stress and hinders living."