ABSTRACT
Emotion is often typically described as involving changes in experience, autonomic nervous system activation, expressive behaviour, and instrumental behavior. Repressed emotions can also be used to fuel other destructive behaviours, such as self-starvation, which requires an immense amount of physical and psychological energy to sustain. Anger is a core emotion resulting from difficult life experiences, and is, regrettably, the emotion that receives most bad press in modern society. Despite its bad reputation, anger is a healthy emotion and simply a reaction to a perceived threat to ourselves, our loved ones, our property, our self-image, or some part of our identity. The main emotions that most frequently emerge after a battle with one's physical appearance are guilt and shame. The hydraulic model of emotions emerged from the psychoanalytic theory of catharsis. Emotional repression causes blockages and an insufficient flow of peptide signals to maintain function at the cellular level, which sets up the conditions that can lead to disease.
