How To Handle Your Emotions and Triggers
An essay on emotions and experience
By Benedicta Chiwendu
The day we separate ourselves from our emotions is the day we stop being human.
Our emotion is the reason why we can form relationships and create bonds with others. However, of all of humanity’s pain, the worst kind is emotional. Makes you want to believe we’re better off without emotions.
We’ve all had experiences that keep us stuck.
Everybody else has gotten over it except us. Everyone else has moved on but we don’t quite know where to go from there. And when we see something similar to what we’ve been through we respond to it not knowing we’re actually responding to the trauma.
An employee who’s dealt with a boss with an overbearing attitude, who sees nothing but his plans and policies; would shush everybody at work speed talking them into silence, the reaction of his employees at first may be to endure and keep calm after all he is the boss, but there’d always be a growing resentment underneath the silence that only reveals itself when frustration reaches its final stage.
Such an employee might find himself in later stages of life always in defense mode.
