The movement of the shapes reflects how our emotions vary in strength and frequency in peoples lives. Plutchiks Wheel of Emotions offers a comprehensive framework for comprehending the spectrum of human emotions. No matter what your Wheel of Emotions looks like, the concept is still the same - humans are capable of so many vast and complicated emotions. Each emotion is represented as a continent. Emotions are complex states that impact our thoughts, behaviors, and interactions. As stated in the resource about navigating Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions, the “deeper” you get on the wheel, the more intense the emotional response. He developed a wheel of emotions that looks a little different than mine, which you can find here. Robert Plutchik, humans can experience 34,000 distinguishable emotions. It’s better than “nothing.”Īccording to American psychologist Dr. It gives me some language to talk about how I feel. If I feel Stressed, do I also feel Overwhelmed or Out of Control? Do I feel both? Even if there isn’t one “perfect” label to sum up how I’m feeling, it sets me in the right direction. ( Do I feel Bored, Busy, Stressed or Tired?) Then, I can even go one step deeper. If I can’t pinpoint exactly how I’m feeling, but know, at the very least, I feel “bad,” I can then move on to the next layer. It makes it hard for me to process emotions in real time. It’s as if my brain is trying to protect itself, working in overdrive so I can still function. It makes it hard for me to identify how I really feel about things. Something happens in a TV show, and I cry as if it’s happening to me, suddenly unable to breathe by a fictional plot that is vaguely related to something personal.īut yet, as things are actually happening, it’s still hard for me to feel.
One off-hand comment from a friend (combined with too many drinks), and I’m fighting self-harm urges in a public bathroom. In discrete emotion theory, all humans are thought to have an innate set of basic emotions that are cross-culturally recognizable.These basic emotions are described as 'discrete' because they are believed to be distinguishable by an individuals facial expression and biological processes. A change in dinner plans leaves me sobbing on my bed. The second circle moving outward is where major emotion categories are written. The inner circle is solid grey with a white title that reads Emotion Sensation Wheel.
Then, it comes out in bursts of emotion, triggered by seemingly “little” things. The Emotion Behavior Wheel consists of four layers of rings and six sections of colors: red, purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange. It comes out in bad thoughts, like, “ I want to kill myself,” a sentence that sometimes (although, thankfully, not recently) runs through my mind, a placeholder for whatever negative emotions I didn’t process that day. Feelings charts have different features and may use visual aids like wheels, charts, or faces. For me, this rain can manifest physically through stomachaches and back pain no amount of stretching relieves.