How do you effectively manage your emotional disturbance as a researcher?

Personally for me is cool down (stopped thinking the matter for a while), then reflect & then act.  My personal experience is most of the immediate reactions after emotional disturbances are not the ideal reactions that I will resort to after the cool down / reflection period.  However, I need to track myself to revisit the issue so that it will not slipped off my mind.

How do you effectively manage your emotional disturbance as a researcher?

Personally for me is cool down (stopped thinking the matter for a while), then reflect & then act.  My personal experience is most of the immediate reactions after emotional disturbances are not the ideal reactions that I will resort to after the cool down / reflection period.  However, I need to track myself to revisit the issue so that it will not slipped off my mind.

Well this too personal Dickson !!!!!

I try to talk or if I cant then write because I won't hoard BS . Honestly people drive me crazy so I  move out so that I am relaxed...

I go to library and read

I drink coffee (lotszz)

I walk (a lot)

A researcher should have the virtue called patient. Patience is defined in the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary (2007) as “the ability to accept delay, trouble or suffering without becoming angry or upset.”. According to DeMarco (1996) that patience gives the flexibility that a person need, in order to find worthwhile pursuits when other opportunities are unavailable. He further states that patience allows us to bear foolishness without growing angry and tolerate monotony without becoming bored. 

References

DeMarco, D. (1996), The Heart of Virtue, Ignatius Press.

Pocket Oxford English Dictionary (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dear Prof. Han,

Thanks so much for sharing your feasible steps for overcoming emotional disturbance. I am very grateful to you for sharing this great view. Best regards

Dickson Adom

My dear friend prof. Aparna,

Interesting and nice way you attend to your emotional disturbance. I am indeed grateful for sharing your personal views with us. All the best.

Dickson Adom

Dear Prof. Tariq,

Thank you so much for revealing the beautiful quality of patience for rebutting emotional disturbance. I am grateful. Best regards

Dickson Adom

Dear Prof. Anuradha,

I appreciate greatly, the detailed explanation of the word 'patience' and how that beautiful quality can be espoused during emotionally stressful moments. Best regards

Dickson Adom

Hello doctor, patient and calm greetings

I can manage my emotional disturbances by listening to soft music or reading romantic poems where I can find my real self.

Thanks dearly my Prof. from Babylon for your endorsement of patience as an antidote to emotional disturbance. Best regards

Dickson Adom

Dear Sister Prof. Arwa,

Thank you for your interesting and workable strategy for managing your emotional disturbance. Best regards

Dickson Adom

Be a warrior, make yourself realize that you are there to overcome all the odds.

Dear Prof. Khurram,

Thanks sincerely for your motivating comment. Of course, we must stand up as warriors to face the emotional disturbance we face as researchers. Thanks and best regards

Dickson Adom

What helps me most is journaling. A) First write down the trigger or triggers or activating agent(s). B) Capture the inner running commentary playing out in the background that is generating the disturbing feeling. C) Write out the feelings present, first in words and then in imagery. (Eg. I feel like a boiling pot. I feel as if I am in a game where the rules are changed in the middle of the game. I feel like someone about to score a goal and the goal post is shifted). Also put down what the feeling is making you feel like doing. I feel like giving up. I feel like tearing up xyz. D) Dispute the contents of the running commentary earlier identified. E) Revisit your options of how you want to respond to the incidents that triggered the upset. Consciously and deliberately choose how to respond as different from reacting. This is the entire process in a nutshell and it is highly effective. In practice, by the time you are through with the first step much of the emotions would have dissipated of their own accord. And you can get back to work. If the issues at stake are quite deep and serious, one may need many rounds of this exercise.

My earlier contribution is a synthesis, adaptation and enhanced version of John Powel's ideas on rational emotive therapy as found in his book Fully Human, Fully Alive.

In addition, proponents of non-violent communication (NVC) and compassionate living have also developed a procedure quite similar to that which I offered earlier. Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the NVC movement would, have us seek to find out what unmet need is at the root of the emotional upset. It may be the need for respect or any other. If that need is legitimately supplied, the emotional disturbance will be replaced with peace, serenity and an inner sense of balance.

Keep work aside for sometime.

By creation a time for refreshment.

Dear and Dear Raeed

Al Salam Alaikum

it is nice to answer your Q (philosophically)

to increase the drive for life do the following

1- thank our God,for all you have

2- daily excersices 30 minutes daily

3-breakfast is essential

4-seriuseness even with yourself  , dont be sighlent

5- pay more mony and I know you have a lot , since your resedency . pay for research, for trips, for family

6-dont say tomorrow I II do it,

7-memorendum should be present always, e g time that spend in Basra.

8-smile smile and smile

9-what you eat have impact on your mood

10-care of you charecter and be attractive

11- Trust by God

now you can do it

yourse Ahmed Al Abbasi

By keeping patience, pace, and mental peace, we can effectively manage emotional disturbance. 

Switch to something else ... then the solution will come itself

Dear Prof. Subhash,

I am really touched with the mental peace you have highlighted. Thanks so much for sharing this great view. Best regards

Dickson Adom

Dear Prof. Nadezda,

I am thankful to you for your valuable view on attending to a different activity to keep our minds off the root source of the emotional disturbance. Thanks and best regards

Dickson Adom

 A wonderful contribution from Hasan Keleş

Dear Dickson Adom,

I think the way to get rid of emotional discomfort is to keep yourself out.

Thanks.

Dear Prof. Hasan,

I am very thankful for the beautiful comment you have offered on the subject. Best regards

Dickson Adom

I use mindfulness meditation. Viewing my deep self as the ocean and the difficulties that come as waves which will come and go if I leave them alone is quite helpful.

A good link is https://www.mindful.org/mindfulness-how-to-do-it/.

The way i prefer to cool my mind is drawing, listening to music or arranging things...So mind will be organised again..

Dear Prof. Kirk,

What a remarkable metaphor you have supplied to nourish the discussion. I am so grateful for the picture words you have used to deepen the essence of your suggestion. Thank you so much.

Dickson Adom

Dear Prof. Drishya,

I am very grateful for suggesting these creative, relaxing activities as remedies to organize our mental faculties and reshape it again for use after an emotional wreck. Thank you so much and best regards

Dickson Adom

A beautiful suggestion from Prof. Hasan Keleş

Dear Dickson Adom,

I think the way to get rid of emotional discomfort is to keep yourself out.

Thanks.

Dear Prof. Hasan,

I am very grateful for your sound view. Best regards

Dickson Adom

I think emotional disturbance effectively manages the researcher?

Dear Prof. Salma,

That is a splendid remark. Best regards

Dickson Adom

smile smile and smile

care of you character and be attractive

Dear Prof. Nishad,

Thank you dearly for your beautiful comment. Best regards

Dickson Adom

At first there is a human being (a personality) and then there is a student, a professor, a worker and other social status...

Thanks Prof. Irina for your comment but I am lost. Please, can you elaborate more? Thanks so much.

Dickson Adom

Thank you, dear Prof.Dickson Adom,

It's connected with non-cognitive domains : socio-emotional abilities, empathy and interpersonal skills. Being extremely sociable and having thirst for knowledge, I have been meeting a lot of new people anytime and anywhere. I think, the main thing is to find a human beauty in every personality, to understand one and to feel drawn to one through empathy, loving kindness and compassion.To be in love (sympathizing, rejoicing, or admiring) with every personality means to make every academic activity (teaching situation, or creative project) successful. I'm sure, it's very important to be able to create favorable social-psychological climate in the team, association, or group ( for the sake of the subjective need for social intercourse, productive cooperative activity, personal enhancement). Nowadays we discuss the idea of cross-cultural empathy and multidisciplinary thinking on current global issues.Empaths are greatest human beings.

Dear Prof. Irina,

Thank you for responding to my call and giving a very informative and directive comment on the subject in line with how to overcome the daunting hitches (emotional) while pursuing our research activities. The build-up points you have carefully hatched are sound, interesting and worth embracing by all scholars globally. I am enthused and very grateful. Best regards

Dickson Adom

Look at nature. Dabble with colours and painting. Throw a party!

Dear Prof. Rose,

Interesting strategy to arrest emotional disturbance! Thank you so much for your sound viewpoint. Best regards

Dickson Adom

Dear Prof.Dickson Adom

Scientific research can not be hindered and interfere with any emotional issues, there are always priorities, what to do will be done, Each subject has its own time and course of dealing with it, with time devising ways to overcome any subject

Dear Prof. Houda,

Thank you for your valuable comment. I am sincerely grateful. Best regards

Dickson

Dear Prof. Mutasem,

I appreciate your practical comment. Best regards

Dickson

Patience, calmness and non-decision in moments of turmoil

Dear Prof. Isam,

These great qualities are very important in the times of emotional disturbance of the researcher. Thanks dearly

Dickson