How to Control Your Emotions: Emotional Sensitivity. Solutions for Too Emotional People (Negative)

Alcohol is definitely not the answer to the "how to control your emotions in a relationship, at work, anywhere" question. Some people start drinking because of their too-hard emotions. You need to know that it doesn't help and it only makes the problem worse. So better just don't drink alcohol at all or drink it as rarely as possible.

It may sound weird, but a group of people claim that it worked in their case and they consider it the best way to control emotions. When you feel a hard emotion again, try to scale it from 1 to 10, where 10 is the most intensive emotion. Think about it for some time and then take a deep breath. Once you give your hard emotion a scale, it becomes more manageable and easier to cope.

If you feel as one of the highly sensitive people and have issues with controlling emotions, share that with a good friend. It is always easier to think about a situation with a detached view. So discuss the situation that gave you an overreaction with some close friend and there will appear some rational solutions and thoughts that will calm you down at least a little.

If you get bad emotions because of some situation, try to look at it differently. Everything has its dark and bright sides. So ask yourself what good things this situation can bring to you, or how else you could react to the same situation in another day or condition.

This way you will understand that your senses are not constant and there is a way to avoid too hard emotions.

Everyone has their own idol among friends or family who seems very wise. Remember this person, when you have a situation that makes you too emotional, and ask yourself, how would he or she react. It will help you see the situation that makes you too emotional from a different angle.

If you are in a situation where you feel you could get too emotional, try to not get caught up in it. For example, when you are talking with your friend on a phone and he or she asks you a question you don't want to hear, just say that you don't want to talk about it and once you are ready, you will make them know about it.

Just try to relax and imagine what the worst result of the situation that causes you fear and panic could be. Most of the times the answer is that you will get a panic attack. But it's proven that it's never deathful, so just try to be rational and your fears will become easier.