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One of the possible results of the test “How do you handle your emotions?”

You bottle it all up

You keep your emotions under lock and key and put on a brave face. It works in the short term, but what you don't express builds up and can come out as stress, tiredness or physical tension.

Recommendations

  • ✓Find a safe space to express what you feel: a friend, a journal, therapy.
  • ✓Showing emotions isn't weakness: it's information.
  • ✓Start with small things: 'that bothered me', 'I'm sad today'.

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About this test

We all feel anger, sadness and anxiety. What makes the difference is what we do with those emotions once they show up.

Answer according to what you usually do, not what you know you 'should' do.

Emotion regulation strategies

Psychologist James Gross has studied how we manage our emotions. Strategies such as reappraisal (looking at a situation from another angle) and acceptance tend to protect mental health, while habitual suppression, rumination and avoidance are linked to more stress, anxiety and low mood.

Exploding isn't the same as expressing: venting with aggression usually increases anger. The good news is that regulation is a skill, and it can be trained, for example with therapies such as CBT or DBT.