Embrace Your Emotions, Don’t Label Them

Somewhere along the way, we have forgotten that it’s normal to feel - to have bad days, to be sad when things go wrong, to be anxious before change, or to feel lost when life takes a turn. These aren’t disorders or illnesses. They are reminders that we are alive. As long as we are human, it’s normal and important to feel emotions!

The pharmaceutical boom of the late 20th and early 21st centuries led to emotions being neatly boxed and labeled as illnesses. What was once a natural part of life is now something to diagnose and medicate . 

As a therapist, I often meet clients, especially teenagers, who really believe something is “wrong” with them. But what they are actually feeling are normal emotions that come with growing, adapting, and living in an ever-changing world. While in some cases, it is a genuine mental health condition that needs medical support, in many others it’s simply emotions that have become overwhelming or uncontrolled. They are emotions that need understanding, NOT labelling. In our rush to fix discomfort, we treat them as problems instead of signals that our body wants us to notice. Emotions are our body’s way of speaking- shutting them down, shuts down what makes us human.

Let's bring back the habit of simply feeling our emotions, without judgment, shame, or labeling every feeling as a problem. Need support? Reach out to us at www.humantrilogy.com