Stress and feelings

Abstract

This chapter explores:

• The nature of emotions

• Mental mechanisms

• The effects of bottling up emotions

• Positive ways of coping with emotions

• Releasing bottled up emotions.

One way of describing the way I feel would be to think of yourself in the sea, with the water just lapping at your shoulders. Then, following a couple of hectic days and what seems like a mountain of work to do, you sink a few inches until the water is touching your chin.

Student physiotherapist