How To Deal With Frustration?

When we fail to exceed our goals or objectives, the feeling of frustration appears in our lives. Frustration is an uncomfortable feeling that prevents us from overcoming failure and nullifies our creativity, a necessary quality to seek or achieve new goals.

Developing our complexes makes us ineffective, destroys motivation and generates impotence. It is a very disturbing feeling, and yet it is necessary to develop emotional strength.

Accept, assimilate and overcome frustration

1. Identify how frustration makes you feel

Anger and sadness

When we are frustrated we essentially feel a mixture of anger and sadness. We can also feel hopeless and in some cases, anxiety. Learning to control anxiety is possible.

Afraid

Frustration creates a vicious cycle in which the feeling of failure constantly increases. The fear of failing again appears and we say to ourselves “it is better not to try again”, so the frustration increases. It is necessary to overcome frustration to be able to go back to chasing what we want.

Feeling of injustice

For some people it creates a general feeling of rejection of what justice represents to them. We have to understand that working very hard for something does not guarantee our success and many times it has no direct relationship with achieving it. We don't always get what we want, but positive thinking is the reality that we always learn something.

2. Possible negative reactions to frustration

When you feel frustrated, you may react negatively to this feeling, because you don't know how to handle it. Some of these reactions, which you have to avoid having are:

- Self-destruction: Constant repression of oneself. “I can't do it”, “I have failed”, “it's not worth trying again”… These are some of the insights that can haunt us. This attitude only perpetuates your frustration.

- Aggression: The feeling of rage and anger is stronger. You look for culprits for the failure situation and respond aggressively to them, whether they are personified or contextual.

- Resignation: You accept that you are not going to achieve what you had proposed. You stop feeling angry, but you continue to feel sadness.


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