If you're feeling anger with respect to your job, for example, you might look across the wheel at anger's opposite emotion, joy, and then seek out a new job (or situation within your current job) which enables the second and third-tier emotions, e.g. There's a second way to utilize the chart, too you can look to it as a tool for identifying your goal emotions. Does the person feel sad? Emotionally numb? Angry? Physically tired but for emotional reasons? When a client and I are deciding how we want to approach depression, we’d approach sadness differently than numbness," she says. To treat it effectively, a therapist needs to know about that personal experience. "'Depression' is a diagnosis, but the actual experience varies a lot by person. The wheel can help translate a diagnostic term into a personal description of someone's experience. In a clinical setting, this nuance is especially helpful, says psychologist Aimee Daramus, PsyD. "For example, someone says that they are feeling sad-when that person realizes that the feeling is actually guilt, how they would cope with the feeling of guilt would look different from someone who realized that their sadness is actually loneliness," Smith explains.
The outer two rings, however, drill down into the specific emotions associated with those larger emotions to give you a better sense of what to do about them. These are go-to emotional states but they're fairly vague, which isn't all that helpful when it comes to trying to remedy (or achieve) them. The wheel features three rings, the innermost of which includes six core emotions: sad, mad, scared, joyful, powerful, and peaceful. #feelings #feelingswheel #express #emotions #therapy #mentalhealth #wellbeing #psychotherapy #austintherapist #plumeriacc #plumeriacounselingcenterĪ post shared by Sabrina Smith, LCSW on at 9:15am PST Using a feelings wheel can help us to understand our experiences and emotional states, express ourselves more effectively, and offer or provide ourselves with the most accurate tool to manage those feelings. Emotions can be incredibly nuanced and finding the right word to express a feeling can be challenging. I love a good feelings wheel to help clients better identify exactly what they are feeling and experiencing.
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