Have you ever felt that you need to apologise for
being negative, sad, angry or just plain awful? Or, maybe you just don't share
these feelings with your friends and family?
In our weekly discussion, we've
been exploring emotion suppression as a way of coping and thinking about the
effects on how we manage our emotions.
"Think positive" can
become a mantra for those of us living with cancer. Such a reaction is hardly
surprising, given our culture's overriding bias toward positive thinking but although positive emotions important,
problems arise when we start believing we must be upbeat all the time. Research
shows that experiencing and accepting such emotions are vital to our mental health
and trying to suppress them can backfire, and even lessen our sense of
contentment.
#ResilienceDiscussion
