HURT, BITTERNESS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS: RELATIVELY TO MENTAL HEALTH
HURT is one of the major problems that people face every day. Hurt is something or someone that causes mental or emotional pain or distress. Hurt can cause bitterness and bitterness can cause hurt as the case may be. Hurt causes bitterness and it can be traced from time immemorial even in the Bible as Cain felt hurt because his brother Abel’s offering was accepted and his was rejected in the book of GENESIS 4. Therefore it can be said that hurt can cause bitterness and lead to disappointments in whoever is responsible for the hurt. It is normal to be hurt, feel bitter and disappointed but the way an individual will handle the hurt is what really matters. According to Epictetus the philosopher who said, “what happen to us do not cause distress but it is how we take it that causes distress”.
Hurt, bitterness and disappointments can cause us distress if care is not taken it can affect our emotional and mental health stability negatively. Through our automatic thought or maladaptive thinking, we can translate hurt, bitterness and disappointment into some behavioral personality disorders. It can lead one to become collo-mental as it said; madness.
Bitterness could be called the seed of sadness and sorrow. Bitterness could be resentful and it is a state of intense hatred which is characterized by distress and lead to avoidance form of behavior. One of the bad things about bitterness is that it doesn’t stop… It keeps getting worse. It may only start as a little seed of hurt, but then it grows and festers into a very dangerous thing. “see to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many may be defiled. “(Heb. 12:15) Question: Does bitterness just hurt the person who is bitter? Answer: No. the Bible says many people can be hurt by one person’s bitterness.
Disappointments can be cause by person or persons who fail to fulfill certain hopes, then comes hurt as a result of failure and bitterness in the form of hatred comes in. hurt, bitterness and disappointments are actions that touch our emotions and they must be handled well when they are experienced at any point in time. And because all this three but complementary words are that which touches our emotion, we not dwell too much on them when it happens. We can show our grievances or anger when we are hurt but life must move on as they necessary distractions on our way. A hurt person is bitter and disappointed at whatever actions or decisions that makes him or her sad.
ness is that it doesn’t stop… It keeps getting worse. It may only start as a little seed of hurt, but then it grows and festers into a very dangerous thing. “see to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many may be defiled. “(Heb. 12:15) Question: Does bitterness just hurt the person who is bitter? Answer: No. the Bible says many people can be hurt by one person’s bitterness.
Disappointments can be cause by person or persons who fail to fulfill certain hopes, then comes hurt as a result of failure and bitterness in the form of hatred comes in. hurt, bitterness and disappointments are actions that touch our emotions and they must be handled well when they are experienced at any point in time. And because all this three but complementary words are that which touches our emotion, we not dwell too much on them when it happens. We can show our grievances or anger when we are hurt but life must move on as they necessary distractions on our way. A hurt person is bitter and disappointed at whatever actions or decisions that makes him or her sad.
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