Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32590787-20170729033601/@comment-168424-20170731220345

Write your emotions down in a journal. Try to write down why you think you are having the emotions. Do some research. Most emotions are psychological interpretations of biological changes (hormones, lack or surplus of metabolic chemicals, immune responses, etc.). Sometimes if you can understand why you get certain feelings you can know how to react better to them.

Emotions are important and they can signal important things to you, but it if you make the wrong interpretation, it can really screw things up. Babies cry sometimes for every little thing, because they don't yet understand where the feeling like being hungry or having to pee come from and it upsets them. Over time, they learn what the feelings mean and they can eat or pee and feel better. It's like the difference between learning to built stuff in Minecraft and actual programming. They are similar things in many ways, but one is just a more complicated version of the other.