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The Virtual Couch

Hey, How You Feeling? Primary and Secondary Emotions Explained!

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been scared by a friend? Chances are your first, or primary emotion, was fear! That's perfectly normal, after all, you're human. But what emotion follows after the initial fear response? Do you get angry because your friend scared you?...

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0:00.0

Coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, primary and secondary emotions.

0:04.8

Let's say that your friend scares you, and I'm talking a big scare.

0:08.1

You immediately react with fear because you're human.

0:10.9

But what comes next?

0:12.2

What's that secondary emotion?

0:13.7

Is it anger?

0:14.5

Is it embarrassment?

0:15.7

We're going to talk about how to tap into those primary emotions, and doing so is going to keep you far more present, which

0:22.6

leads to a much more fulfilling life. That and more coming up on today's episode of the virtual

0:28.3

couch.

0:40.1

Hey, everybody, I'll make this one quick.

0:43.4

Now, as a therapist myself, of course, I recommend that everybody give therapy a try.

0:46.4

Truly, we're all hanging on to some things that would be helpful to process,

0:49.4

or there's things in our life that we might, maybe we thought we'd achieve by now, or there's things that we desperately want to achieve so that we won't live a life full of regrets.

0:53.9

Or there are people listening right now who may be noticing that their anxiety or their

0:58.0

depression is getting a tiny bit more, let's call it amplified, the longer that it's left

1:01.8

untreated. You owe it to yourself or those around you, to your spouse, your kids, and actually

1:06.1

I guess really the most important person is you to at the very least give therapy a try.

1:10.4

So if you're nervous about finding the right fit, if you're worried about bumping into somebody

1:13.5

in a therapy waiting room, if you have any worries about therapy, might I recommend that you go

1:18.1

immediately to betterhelp.com slash virtual couch.

1:21.2

Again, that's betterhelp.com slash virtual couch, all one word.

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