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    Why We All Need To Practice Emotional First Aid

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    Taking care of one's psychological health through emotional first aid can help reduce emotional bleeding from rejection, failure, and loneliness. Rumination is an unhealthy habit where one focuses on the causes and consequences of distressing thoughts rather than solutions, leading to anxiety, insecurity, and depression over time. To resist rumination, one should try to catch themselves doing it and immediately distract themselves with other engaging activities to prevent reinforcing those thoughts. Maintaining psychological health can benefit one by reducing feelings of stress and promoting clearer thinking.

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    Why We All Need To Practice Emotional First Aid

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    Taking care of one's psychological health through emotional first aid can help reduce emotional bleeding from rejection, failure, and loneliness. Rumination is an unhealthy habit where one focuses on the causes and consequences of distressing thoughts rather than solutions, leading to anxiety, insecurity, and depression over time. To resist rumination, one should try to catch themselves doing it and immediately distract themselves with other engaging activities to prevent reinforcing those thoughts. Maintaining psychological health can benefit one by reducing feelings of stress and promoting clearer thinking.

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    Taking care of one's psychological health through emotional first aid can help reduce emotional bleeding from rejection, failure, and loneliness. Rumination is an unhealthy habit where one focuses on the causes and consequences of distressing thoughts rather than solutions, leading to anxiety, insecurity, and depression over time. To resist rumination, one should try to catch themselves doing it and immediately distract themselves with other engaging activities to prevent reinforcing those thoughts. Maintaining psychological health can benefit one by reducing feelings of stress and promoting clearer thinking.

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    Taking care of one's psychological health through emotional first aid can help reduce emotional bleeding from rejection, failure, and loneliness. Rumination is an unhealthy habit where one focuses on the causes and consequences of distressing thoughts rather than solutions, leading to anxiety, insecurity, and depression over time. To resist rumination, one should try to catch themselves doing it and immediately distract themselves with other engaging activities to prevent reinforcing those thoughts. Maintaining psychological health can benefit one by reducing feelings of stress and promoting clearer thinking.

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    Why we all need to practice emotional first aid

    1. Why do you think more people give importance to their body than their mind?

     Both are extremely important. However, your mind controls your thoughts and essentially your
    life, so it is crucial to make sure you have your mind in check first. Most people fixate on their
    outer appearance and do not take the time to really work on their mental and emotion health.
    Once you have a healthy mind, it takes obtaining a healthy body so much easier. 

    2. How can we stop emotional bleeding that was brought by failure, rejection, and loneliness?

    Pay attention to emotional pain. Psychological pain is much like physical pain—if something
    hurts for more than a few days, you need to do something about it. If you experience rejection,
    failure, or have a bad mood that lingers too long, don’t ignore it. Take action when you feel
    lonely. Chronic loneliness is devastating to your emotional and physical health because it
    increases your chances of an early death by 14%. Therefore, when you feel lonely, actions like
    reaching out to family members, connecting with friends or joining a dating website can help.
    Stop your emotional bleeding. Psychological wounds tend to create vicious cycles that get worse
    with time. Failure can lead to feelings of helplessness that in turn can make you more likely to
    fail again in the future. To break the negative cycle of failure, find ways to gain control of the
    situation. Protect your self-esteem. Your self-esteem is like an emotional immune system—it
    can increase your resilience and protect you from stress and anxiety. Good emotional hygiene
    involves monitoring your self-esteem and boosting it when it’s low. How? Avoid negative self-
    talk that damages it further—despite how tempting it might be to indulge these kinds of
    thoughts at times.

    3. What is rumination? Why is it dubbed as one of the unhealthiest psychological habits?

    Rumination is the focused attention on the symptoms of one's distress, and on its possible
    causes and consequences, as opposed to its solutions, according to the Response Styles Theory
    proposed by Nolen-Hoeksema (1998). In addition, Rumination is the act of divulging oneself in
    deep thoughts about certain things and has been labeled as the unhealthiest psychological
    habit. It has been labeled that way because rumination leads to overthinking that will eventually
    give rise to anxiety, insecurities, and depression. With this, one focuses on the things, persons,
    and events that made his/her life in vain or at stake and it leads to that person thinking more on
    the causes and consequences rather than solutions. Also, that person is being consumed now by
    the bad thoughts he/she has now in mind. Hence, it is an unhealthy act and makes a person
    more stressful, sadder, more anxious, more insecure, and more depressed. These feelings can
    not only affect ourselves but also the people, activities, and world around us.

    4. According to Dr. Winch, how can someone resist the urge of ruminating?

    According to Dr. Winch, how can someone resist the urge of ruminating? Because of the
    ‘addictive’ nature of ruminations, the best way to break the compelling allure of our brooding is
    to go ‘cold turkey’. Specifically, we must try to catch ourselves ruminating as quickly as we can
    each time and find ways to distract ourselves so that we occupy our minds with something other
    than the focus of our ruminations. And to be clear—anything else will do. Whether it’s watching
    a movie, working out, doing a crossword puzzle, or playing Angry Birds, anything that requires us
    to concentrate will force us to stop ruminating. Over time, by preventing the rumination from
    playing out and by not reinforcing its allure, the urge to revisit it will diminish. 

    5. What are the benefits of taking care of your psychological health? Name at least two (2).

    Reduced feelings of stress. ... Clearer thinking. ...

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