People with a history of childhood trauma tend to feel fewer positive emotions and more negative emotions when discussing ...

While it might feel cathartic to discuss how the rising cost of living is impacting your lifestyle, remember that social ...

Negative emotions, while unpleasant, can also have productive functions. Fear motivates us to engage in either fight or flight in response to a threat or predator. Negative emotions like jealousy ...

Lean Into Negative Emotions. It’s the Healthy Thing to Do. Recent research suggests that while bad feelings can affect your well-being, your perspective on those feelings can play an even bigger ...

If you aren't getting enough sleep or you've even just had one bad bout of tossing and turning, acknowledging it allows you ...

Positive and negative emotions are not an “either or.” They can coexist. I can be very grateful for things in my world and also very sad about some of the things in my world. ...

Emotions are affective reactions we experience to stimuli. They can be positive, such as feeling relaxed or enjoying what you are doing (shopping or going for a walk, for example); and negative ...

Results suggested that happy emojis were often being used to mask negative emotions and “manage the expression” to make a message seem more positive. Getty Images/iStockphoto.

Suppressing negative emotions may actually benefit your mental heath, study finds Patients who suppressed negative emotions for the study often chose to continue after the research was over ...

A Gallup poll surveyed the daily emotions of young Gen Zers, along with how they cope and what support they want and need. Dr. Lisa Damour, an adolescent psychologist, breaks down the findings.

Often we label emotions as good or bad, and this can result in fear, avoidance, and unhelpful coping strategies such as emotional eating. But it's also important to differentiate the exact emotion.

Let's talk about something that might feel counterintuitive: the importance of making space for our difficult emotions. I often hear clients tell me they're trying their best to "stay positive" or ...