From this base, effective communication is most likely to evolve. It is hard to describe or recognize something you can not name. Emotional language is universal, but there are often mixed messages, and perhaps denial or guilt, when it comes to talking about them. But opening up this important area helps us to share the experience of being human. When people share emotions, both painful and joyful, bonds form.
Support is deepened and the experience can be healing.
Human emotions are called by many names and vary in intensity. But when it comes right down to it, there are only eight. Learning effective emotional language can be greatly simplified by narrowing the range of intensities into these eight human emotions. Using these terms to help another understand what you are feeling can be very effective. Some men diagnosed with prostate cancer have strong initial emotions, including denial, anger, fear, frustration, despondency and despair.