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If you find your level of emotional stress interfering with your daily activities or threatening your wellbeing in other ways, you may consider seeing a therapist for help working through emotional issues. That's what they're there for.

Whatever the cause of your emotional stress, you can work toward lessening and managing it, and feeling better in the process, without losing the 'messages' that your emotions are bringing you. For more on coping with emotional stress, see this article on emotional resilience.

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HOW SHOULD I COPE WITH EMOTIONAL STRESS - SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES!

When feeling emotional, there are some ways of coping that can help you to feel better, and other reactions that can make things worse. How do you cope when you're feeling emotional or enduring emotional stress? What are your best emotional coping techniques, or your biggest past mistakes? Share your experiences with emotional health, and see what other readers have to say.

v Have Positive Outlook to Your Family

When I'm emotional, I tend to look up my family and see how wonderful it is to have them...

v Ease Off

I make some calls to my loved ones. Then l shed some tears and sleep it off.

v Cry

i just cry and let out my feelings. For some reason it always helps me.

v Odd Ways Of Coping

When I feel stressed, I either squeeze my small pillow my grandma made me, read, listen music, or say certain sounds like the hard th and V. I love the way these sound. I also try and find something on the internet to read like another person said. It helps, at least for me. I love my lavender solid perfumes, too. I have lavender, lilac, rose, and wisteria. whenever I'm stressed, I smell them, and try to think of nature's smells and what summer feels like.

v When I Get Emotional

When I get emotional about the things people say about me I calm down, then I think about the things they say, but after a while I think of something else like going out somewhere fun that will make me forget about all the things people say.

v Light a Candle

This is about a tradition I started after a beloved grandparent died, but became so much more. I believe that true love is eternal. All those who have ever truly loved you still do, no matter where you are, no matter where they are. Don't we learn this as children when parents send us off to school, and when we return, our parents are there, still loving us as much as they did before we went. And so when my grandmother died, I lit a candle for her, a flame symbolizing that eternal love coming from wherever she was. As years went by I continued to light the candle, and think of all those who have loved me and realized one day that whatever I'm suffering through, they'd want me to be happy, and to live the best life each day that I possibly can. And so lighting the candle became a promise to them, to honor their love for me by doing at least one thing each day to lift my spirits, because they would do that for me if they could, as well as a promise to live the best life I can each day.

v In my opinion, the sun, the sea, and the sky are my best friends in my hard moments in my life. People are very busy to listen to your problems, and most of the time they do not pay attention, so it's the perfect chance to come close to Mother Nature, to see the birds that have almost nothing, but everything in their lives. And birds always fly and open their wings wider and wider till the sky feels small compared to them. God bless.

v The Need for Love

I think when anyone of us begins to feel low and we get emotional, we need to have more support and love. I believe we get like that in this first place because we endure things on our own and the 'love support thing' is missing, so we feel lonely and that brings with it all sorts of symptoms and ailments, which inevitably make us feel worse. It is true music, warm baths, and deep sighing breaths can give us temporary relief, but the best cure of all is a good old fashioned hug and cup of love. May sound a bit soppy, but it can heal when other things have failed us. If we are on our own, then we need some self-loving and be kind to yourself. Take care

v Coping with Stress

I try to listen to music, or play it myself. Find inspirational songs and play them over and over again full-blast. I also just tend to let it all out in the middle of the night (no one can see me, all that). I try relaxing things, such as taking deep breaths (I know, it sounds cheesy but it does work!) to calm myself.

v Be Emotional

I think a good cry always helps. When you're on your own, just take 5 minutes and let it all out. Also, do something nice for yourself--a bubble bath, do your nails, a hot chocolate and a soft blanket. Breathing exercises are good, and also writing....

v I Write

I write out all the frustration, anger, pain, disappointment, fear, worry, and disbelief that my diagnosis has brought. My diagnosis is not correct - they say I have relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis ... I say I have PD, as both my parents had, as my symptoms closely follow my dad's at my age. I will continue to seek the correct diagnosis, and so the correct medication. My writing allows me a reference point to refer to before seeing my therapist or my neurologist ... it supplements my weakening memory for detail ... and it validates my feelings and determination. It may be that i have both MS and PD ... but they are ignoring the PD and early treatment is a benefit I'm being denied ... I will continue to write, and to seek the right diagnosis. I fear that the MS med might be enabling an increasing loss in dopamine, as it is designed to cross the blood brain barrier, thus weakening that and inviting other cross overs, in or out, in my innocent estimation.

v Dance

When I feel overwhelmed by a given situation, I take the time to walk and take a deep breath. Put the music to full blast and just dance.

v Cry at Times

When I feel stressed, I listen to gospel worshiping songs, then I cry and pray while crying, and log into my diary, and start telling myself that I can do it. It makes me stronger day by day.

v Coping With Emotional Stress

Talking to a trusted friend eases a bit, but keeping in mind that time heals all wounds helps me a lot. Just yourself busy with things you love doing.

v Give Yourself a Good Talking To

I use self-talk to calm myself down and figure out what is making me so stressed. I really look at what the cause is and decide if it is something I can change or not, if it is important enough to worry about and what I am going to do about it. Learning to use your self talk to help you is a wonderful gift.

v Coping with Emotional Stress

I do get emotional sress up when am disappointed by any friends, but I overcome this is by talking to myself, going to pray and by thanking God, and with time it get off me.

Enjoy Solitude Late at Night

I enjoy sitting outside in the dark while everyone else sleep. There is something about the silence of the night relaxes my mind.

v Talk to a Friend

A friend's listening ear, mind and heart are my immediate coping mechanism for all my major emotional stress. These sessions are always followed by advises on coping, then we always end up praying for solutions of the situation. Moreover, I am a busy bee. I am also very fond of gardening and handicrafts, so I divert my thoughts in my garden, and my crafts. For intense emotional stress, I immedieatly take on my enterpreneurial spiritedness. I always believe that money should not be an added challenge when engulfed with emotional stress. For this, I direct my thoughts at conceptualizing income generating projects that can be monetized and before I know it, I am busy business planning.

v Paper, Pen , Colour, Sky....

I use paper, pen and colour technique to overcome my stress and emotional upsets. In most situations, I express my heartfelt feelings into my personal diary and in my picture book. It's a really a matter of pleasure that I got good solutions from linking words and pictures. I also get the chance to improve my vocabulary and creativity. Many times I've experinced that I become very fresh, motivated, energized and genarative by this method. It's my different but fruitful manner to cope with emotional stress. I also see the sky and imagine the existance of supreme power. In this process, I pick positive rays and leave the tensions behind. Cute, selfless and fresh faces of children also help me to step forward for something better.

v Try to Avoid Thinking About My Problems

When I feel uncomfortable emotions, I will try my best to avoid thinking of them. I will call my friends whom I like most and share some jokes. Listening to music (rocking) can also aleviate my pain.

v It Is Not Within Me

Depending on the situation and contents of the situation, if bad enouth, forgiveness is not within me. I forget and put the part of forgiveness in the lord's hands.

v Emotional Stress

Emotional stress has be deadlier than any malignant diseases known to man. How I cope? I focus most my attention to the Internet, like now. I find websites such as this useful, very informative and pre-occupying. Before I realize it, time has just "flown by", leaving me, hopefully, more knowlegabale and stress free during the time lapsed. It seems to work, for me at least.

v Coping By Working

I have now been using a self method of coping by working: work and block off all the thoughts that are painful. I then listern to music, and playing songs in my mind to stop those hurting thoughts from presenting themselves, but I still break down crying if something related to this hurt is presented to me. Then, after the crying, I will tell myself to put it aside and push those thoughts down, and tell myself to work and keep going everyday for usually a period of time. I love handcrafts, and so I love to work on colors to create a nice range of colors - this is my favourite vitamin for life now. I begin to see and relate my food, clothes and surroundings with colors, and I do enjoy and feel so peaceful when this is actually presented in the day.

v I Am Bigger than Stress

I never divert myself from a troubling situation, rather prefer to find out the cause behind it so that if it was at all my fault, I take responsibility and then play accordingly. If I am not behind it, then I question my self, "Is this useful?" or "is it that important to be taken that seriously?" My other way of dealing with any stress in my life to consider that stress very small before me.

v Play Music

I'm not a professional musician, but I do know how to play, and I do use this skill to deal with my emotional 'stuff'. Just playing music helps me get lost in the zone, and I feel better almost always after doing thisnal stress has be deadlier than any malignant diseases known to man. How I cope? I focus most my attention to the Internet, like now. I find websites such as this useful, very informative and pre-occupying. Before I realize it, time has just "flown by", leaving me, hopefully, more knowlegabale and stress free during the time lapsed. It seems to work, for me at least.

v Coping By Working

v I Am Bigger than Stress

v Play Music

v Coping with Emotional Stress

Try to think positive about what you are stressed about. Change your way of thinking in general: about everything in general. Take a walk and enjoy nature. Read a good book. Anything to get your mind off of what you are stressed about.

v Bury Myself In Food

I'd like to say that I have a technique for coping with emotional stress, but really, I end up eating. I numb myself with cookies or cake, and I've now ended up with another problem compounding everything: I have a problem with food.

v Bury Myself In Food II

Like Guest Sue, I myself also cope with food whenever I get emotional feelings. Now eating became a problem with me it became more like a habit. Whenever I'm at home before I know it, I'm eating everything that I find in my way and never seem to stop. Maybe because food is what relieves me from the pain.

Many people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that involve intense emotional experiences, have trouble accepting emotions. It’s very hard to accept emotions that are painful, extreme and sometimes even scary; however, accepting emotions can actually help improve your emotion regulation and lead to less mood swings and more emotional balance.