negative emotions and health.

1. Psychology Assignment
“Negative Emotions and
Health”
From- Mohammed Abdul Rafe
Group- 03

2. Emotions
– A mind and body’s integrated
response to a stimulus of some
kind.
– Emotions involve Physiological
arousal, Expressive behaviours
and Conscious experience i.e.
Walking alone at night and you
hear footsteps Physio. Arousal :
Heart beating fast Expressive
Behaviour: Walk faster or move
towards streetlights Conscious
Experience: Feeling Fear, panic.

3. Negative Emotions
– Negative emotions can be described as
any feeling which causes you to be
miserable and sad.
These emotions make you dislike
yourself and others, and reduce your
confidence and self-esteem, and general
life satisfaction. Emotions that can
become negative are hate, anger,
jealousy and sadness.

5. EMOTION AND
HEALTH:
THE ULTIMATE
RELATION
• Emotion plays a big role in
how we think and how we
behave. It affect our
psychological states and
therefore, our bodies. •
Because , what is
psychological is ultimately
biological • For instance,
chronic anger and depression
makes us vulnerable to all
kinds of health problems
(Hypertension, Cardiovascular
disease and infection).

7.  Poor emotional health can weaken body’s immune
systems – vulnerable to infection during emotionally
difficult times.
 Also, when you don’t feel good, you may not take care
of your health as well as you should.
 May not feel like eating, exercising, taking medicine
 Abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs – sign of
poor emotional health
 Stress • DEFINITION: The process by which we
perceive and response to certain events or stressors,
that we view as challenging or threatening.
 Stress isn't technically an emotion – more to a reaction
to a disturbing or disruptive stimulus.
 Reaction depends of own’s appraisal of the stimulus.
 Psychological states cause physical illness. • Stress can
be adaptive. In a fearful or stress- causing situation –
we can run away and save our lives • Stress can be
maladaptive. If it is prolonged (chronic stress), it
increases risk of illness and health problems.

9. How thoughts and emotions impact health
• thoughts and emotions can affect your health. Emotions that are freely experienced and
expressed without judgment or attachment tend to flow fluidly without impacting our
health. On the other hand, repressed emotions (especially fearful or negative ones) can
zap mental energy, negatively affect the body, and lead to health problems..
• It's important to recognize our thoughts and emotions and be aware of the effect they
have—not only on each other, but also on our bodies, behaviour, and relationships.
• Negative attitudes and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness can create
chronic stress, which upsets the body's hormone balance, depletes the brain chemicals
required for happiness, and damages the immune system. Chronic stress can actually
decrease our lifespan. (Science has now identified that stress shortens our telomeres, the
“end caps” of our DNA strands, which causes us to age more quickly.)
• Poorly managed or repressed anger (hostility) is also related to a slew of health
conditions, such as hypertension (high blood pressure), cardiovascular disease, digestive
disorders, and infection.