ABSTRACT
Happiness and sadness are emotions usually experienced in relation to people, such as the environment or possessions. Overreacting with positive emotion is only likely to cause embarrassment, but fear related emotions can drive harmful behaviours with potentially disastrous consequences. An immediate way of managing emotions if they start to become too intense in any situation is to become aware of the physical sensations that accompany heightened emotion. Monitoring emotions can help to stop them from getting too strong and impairing our ability to think clearly. Expressing the wrong emotion or too much or too little of the right emotion is often labelled as social awkwardness. Experiment with different activities until health professionals find one that health professionals enjoy enough to persevere with. Increased empathy enables to respond in a more attuned way to others, whether their behaviour calls for compassion or reprimand.
