"Assumption # 1: People often think they experience emotions one-at-a-time. Typically in any given moment if I were to ask you how you felt, you’d probably identify the most prevalent feeling – i.e. “I am scared”, “I am happy”, or “I am overwhelmed”. However in many situations, you can (and often do) feel multiple emotions at the same time. You may even feel emotions that seem inconsistent with one another. Ever heard of the phrase “mixed emotions”?
Assumption #2: People often assume that feeling one emotion somehow detracts from or negates another. So you may think to yourself – “If I am feeling relief, then I can’t possibly be as sad as I should be.” When in reality you can be super sad and also a little relieved at the same time because emotions aren’t mutually exclusive. You can have two emotions about two totally different aspects of an experience. You can feel relief that distressing emotions and physical pain have ended, but this relief does not lessen the devastation and intense sadness caused by the death of a person who you love very dearly."
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