Emotions: A Code Book
Sorry for being harsh but this is pseudoscience. The most researched approach - CBT - says this: we can change our thoughts and it will change our emotions. Something happens, first we experience neutral arousal, our fast automatic thoughts color it and then we experience emotions.<p>For example, we interpret this neutral arousal as anger if we think that another person did something intentionally, not by mistake&#x2F;accident&#x2F;because of tiredness... If we think that it was our mistake - we experience sadness.<p>You thoughts are lines of code that cause your emotions and actions. You can rewrite your thoughts. I recommend counseling and reading the primary source - CBT Basics and Beyond by Beck - it’s very readable and simple. It’s like learning another programming language and rewriting your own brain OS.<p>You’ll change your nonadaptive unhelpful thoughts to the adaptive helpful ones.<p>P.S. Please, at least remove the line about suicidal thoughts. You should never say “change” to a suicidal person.