Emotional Overwhelm

Emotional overwhelm can adversly affect a person. Emotional overwhelm overpowers a person's ability to think and act rationally and perform in an efficient and functional manner. Being emotionally overwhelmed may be caused by undue stress at home or work, past or current traumatic life experiences, perceived stresses, and much more.

• Symptoms of Emotional Overwhelm
• How Psychotherapy Can Help with Emotional Overwhelm
• Health Problems Correlated with Emotional Overwhelm

Symptoms of Emotional Overwhelm

Symptoms of emotional overwhelm may include:

• extreme sadness

• stress over seemingly unstressful things

• inability to decipher own thoughts from reality

• anxiety and fear

• depression and anger

As these symptoms and emotions grow more overwhelming, ability to rationally act and complete even the simplest of tasks may be affected, relationships may falter and/or fail, and emotions run rampant and become uncontrollable.

How Psychotherapy Can Help with Emotional Overwhelm

As emotions become more overwhelming, psychotherapy may be in order. In psychotherapy, clients can get in touch with their emotions, discover the roots of overwhelming emotions, and learn coping skills to effectively understand and work through those emotions which are causing stress. Psychotherapy may also be used to give proper perspective to situations that encourage or create overwhelming emotions and to address co-occuring issues. Psychotherapy also integrates many eastern practices such as meditation, and western innovations such as self-hypnosis, focusing, and centering; all help individuals to learn to self soothe and relax.

Health Problems Correlated with Emotional Overwhelm

Emotional overwhelm may lead to health problems. As worry and anxiety increase, the body's ability to fight off infection may decrease and the body may suffer from fatigue. Medication and/or hospitalization may be required for the body to rejuvenate and rebuild its strength and immunity. Emotional overwhelm may also be a part of or indicator of other psychological concerns, such as depression. People often take medication to deal with anxiety and emotional overwhelm.

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