Emotions and Feelings

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Emotions and Feelings
Ibrahim ansari

Hey, how are you feeling today? Me? I’m feeling kind of nostalgic today.
We talk about feelings all the time, but what is the difference between an emotion and a feeling? Well, I have my own idea about these concepts. 
I tend to think of feelings as a bank of meters, whose needles are gently swaying back and forth between strong and weak. “It’s warm; I feel sad; I feel nostalgic; she bugs me; I like him; this is a nice place; I’m homesick; you make me feel loved…”
All day and all night these little meters are giving us readouts of our world. Sometimes they light up with some joy, sorrow, love, pleasantness, sadness. But they are basically indicators of how things are going.
However, when an emotion strikes, as anger, panic, pressure, stress or fear, the meters are all pinned to the right, red lights flashing, sirens wailing, and there is no longer the ability to detect any more subtlety of feelings. Feelings? We’ve left them far behind. We are emotional!

An emotion, then, is when you are controlled by your drugs that are preparing you to stand your ground and fight for your life, or to run for your life. Any rational, objective reasoning has flown out the window and you are no longer a clear-thinking person. You could be categorised as insane. The temporary loss of reason is due to the flooding of cortisol and adrenaline.

Here’s what happens when fear enters the room: A corticotrophin-releasing hormone causes the release of adrenocorticotropic hormone from the pituitary gland. Adrenocorticotropic hormone in turn travels in the bloodstream to the adrenal glands, where it causes the secretion of the stress hormone cortisol.

The corticotrophin-releasing hormone also acts on many other areas within the brain where it suppresses appetite, increases anxiety, and improves memory and selective attention. Together, these effects co-ordinate behaviour to develop and fine tune the body’s response to a stressful experience.

The corticotrophin-releasing hormone can also be increased above the normal daily levels by a stressful experience, infection or even exercise. An increase in corticotrophin-releasing hormone leads to higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol which mobilises energy resources needed for dealing with the cause of the stress. High levels of stress hormones over a long period can have negative effects on the body.

Abnormally high corticotrophin-releasing hormone levels are connected with a variety of diseases. Because it stimulates anxiety and suppresses appetite, too much corticotrophin-releasing hormone is suspected of causing nervous problems such as clinical depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances and anorexia nervosa.

Every emotional response has a behavioral component, an autonomic component,

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