Emotional Stress Psychology

The film Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her changing emotions after she is forced to move from her home town in Minnesota to San Fransico for her father’s job. The story is told from the perspective of her five emotions. Riley’s emotions are led by Joy, who attempts to guide her through the stressful event. Although Joy puts forth great effort, Sadness takes over. When trying to protect Riley’s core memories from Sadness, Joy is swept from headquarters through the dump tube and Sadness follows. With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are the only emotions left in headquarters; therefore, Riley cannot be happy or sad. Because Joy and Sadness are absent, Riley’s personality islands diminish one by one. Riley fights with her family, pushes away from her friends back home, and loses interest in hockey. As Joy and Sadness navigate through Riley’s brain in search of a way back to headquarters, they encounter many obsticles. Back in headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust place the idea of running away into Riley’s head. Joy witnesses the transformation of a sad memory into a happy memory, and finally realizes the importance of all emotions, including Sadness. With the help of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend, Joy and Sadness find their way back to headquarters and are able to stop Riley from running away. An update in headquarters takes place, and more personality islands develop. Joy learns to accept the

When Riley is faced with the major problem of her core memories, starting to shut down she starts to truly lose herself. Riley’s core memories fuel five islands that make up her personality, Hockey island, Honesty island, Friendship island, Family island, and Goofball island. Her core memories are based on times in her life that were significant to her, without them she does not really know who she is. Depression is the most common Mental illness, twentysix percent of adult people in the United States are diagnosed with it ("Mental Health Basics"). This movie does a really nice job of showing how irritable and dark a person can be when they are depressed. In the movie there is a part where Riley freaks out at her dad, getting mad, when all he did was ask how her day was at school. Throughout the movie she turns from a happy-loving girl to a sad quiet one. Depression is not when people find sadness when they are sad but find sadness when they are happy, I think this is perfectly portrayed in the movie. For example, Riley remembers a time on their trip where her father forgot to put the car in park and it rolled down the hill, at first she thought it was such a funny memory, but as she thought of it more she became sad because of how mad her father was about the

When Riley Anderson was born, the emotion Joy (Amy Poehler) stood alone in the “headquarters” of her mind. But soon, other emotions appeared, including Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Anger (Lewis Black). As Riley aged, Joy and the other emotions learned to work together to bring balance to both her memories and the branching islands of the young girl’s personality.

These emotions are important for children to learn about and be aware of especially when getting older and growing into the tween years. One of the two things I took away from this movie was that you could have more than one emotion attached to a memory. It isn’t a very hard concept to teach children but it’s more or less something that hasn’t been acknowledged on another TV show or movie. Another thing I took away from this movie is that all of your emotions play a role an important role in representing who you are for example, Riley is run by Joy, her mother is run by sadness and her father is run by anger. This could mean that Riley is inherently happy person who normally reacts with a positive out look on life, this could also mean that her mother comes off a little more reserved and some what sad and her father a little more aggressive or short tempered, this enables each person to have their own personality. I feel the biggest lesson children can take away from this movie is the idea that you are allowed to feel whatever emotion you are feeling and that is okay. You shouldn’t feel like you have to force down your emotions to make things easier for yourself and others around you, feel what you are feeling mindfully and then move

When reading Chapter eleven titled Stress and Health Psychology, I couldn’t help but notice all the useful information noted on the pages dealing with the stress levels and health of ourselves and our peers. One piece of information that I already knew prior to this reading was how some particular changes or environmental demands can affect the way you feel, negatively, causing you to become overwhelmed and stressed; a stressor. I believe that you can develop stress from almost anything. According to Morris and Maisto (2016) you can, “Stress is not limited, however, to dangerous or unpleasant situations. Even everyday events or good things can also cause stress, because they necessitate a change or adaption” (p.386). Meaning you can lose a

Another form of mental stress is not talking, addressing or acknowledging your problems as the arise or in a timely matter. Mental stress factors are most commonly talked about and are perceived as negative but that is necessarily true. Just because there is a problem doesn’t mean it can’t be handled. However, either way you not handling them [stress or problems] will make your body pay the price [high bp and other health issues] for neglecting them.

During the pre-adolescent years, the brain is under major construction, but still is able to process information, and make firm decisions based on emotions. In addition, when a child gets older, their personality evolves, and their relationships with others grow and change. In the film, Riley’s actions were determined by her emotion at that moment, which impacted her relationship with her parents and best friend. Also, Riley’s personality evolved when she got older. Her personality expanded to include thoughts about boys, fashion and other teenager thoughts (Doctor & Carmen, 2015).

The movie I watched for my paper is called Inside Out. This movie presents the development of an 11-year-old girl named Riley and about how her memories were being formed prior to a life change. Riley lived in Minnesota and loved playing on her hockey team with her best friends, and she was growing up in what she saw as a perfect life. Little did she know that her life would be turned upside down when Riley was forced to drop everything she loved in Minnesota and move to San Francisco with her family. Although Riley isn’t the main character of the movie, Pixar does a good job of portraying the things that make Riley who she is; and that is her emotions. Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust work together to help Riley act as

Inside Out Although, Joy is one of the most important emotions present in the film, many of the other emotions affect joy and not only her, but Riley’s behavior as well; Therefore balance between emotions is necessary to evolve. Throughout the movie, both Joy and Sadness have been placed side by side and compared. In the beginning this Juxtaposition caused a negative relationship between both emotions. Joy was always in control, she never really did anything wrong, she radiated positivity and was overall keeping Riley happy.

Sigmund Freud once said, “ Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflict.” Unfortunately we as humans have emotions, unlike flowers our emotions must be expressed, or we can lose control of our actions. The children’s movie inside out shows many examples of what can happen when our emotions are not expressed (Docter,2015). The main character Riley has multiple situations in which confrontation occur during the developing years of her life. Riley is forced to move away from her hometown and friends in Minnesota to a totally new world in San Francisco (Docter, 2015), although this would seem tough on most children Riley seems to be taking the move well (Docter, 2015) that is until her animated emotions inside her

Coping styles appears in response to psychological stress, which is commonly prompted by changes in one’s life while trying to make sure that you are mentally and emotionally okay. There are positives and negatives stressors in life. These stressors require coping skills in order to adapt to the new changes. A stressor, which can be seen as positive, is moving to university for Louise. She had to cope with moving to a new environment and making new friends. She had to cope with knowing when it is time to socialize and time to study “…Yeah, yeah, quite a lot, recently because of exams we haven’t, but then Wednesday night we had quite a big night out, so it was really good“… (lines 63-64). Also shazia explained how she coped when she had not

In the movie “Inside out” we discover how all the emotions try to steer the way to control the little girl “Riley” mind but one specific character by the name of “Joy” is basically the one in charge of them all and tries to take on more of the responsibility in situations. Throughout the movie something happens to Riley and her emotions start to really change and Joy doesn’t want to accept what is actually going on that Riley core memories are starting to fade away. As part of responding to the transgressions, Joy starts to discuss the situation with all the other emotions as to why things are failing to work and make Riley happy. As the movie comes along she realizes all her core memories are tearing down and her emotions are all over the

Disney Pixar latest offering ‘Inside out’ (2015) tells the story of 11 years old Riley and how her idyllic and happy life which suddenly changes when she moves to san Francisco with her family. The movie which runs as two connecting stories, one with Riley’s day to day life and the other being Riley’s basic emotions that we see living in her conscious mind. The emotions: joy, Fear, Anger, disgust, and sadness all live in headquarters and play a significant role in Riley’s life, memories and actions. Directed by Peter Doctor, Pixar went above and beyond even their normal level of investment in the depth of the character development and the story to accurately portray how the emotions work within us. Working with psychiatrist, Neuroscientist and psychologists for over 4 years to develop the film which although it was not intended during its conception is hoped

What is stress? How does stress affect my everyday life, and how can I overcome these stressors in my life? Dictionary.com says that stress is “the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another; strain.” meaning that something is putting pressure on my life and one stress can lead to another strain. The main aspects that puts me under stress are college, and my job, which can be overcome by managing my time, finding what exactly it is that is putting me under stress, and by doing something I love.

This paper explores the development of Riley Andersen, the 11-year old protagonist in the Walt Disney Studios film Inside Out. When Riley is forced to move to San Francisco with her family, viewers witness her struggle to work though her developmental tasks and her psychosocial crisis. Although she had once been successful in her stages of development, her transition to a new home and a new school negatively impacts her emotions and causes a regression in her developmental tasks. With the support of her family and increased emotional maturity, she is able to successfully overcome her developmental obstacles. Throughout this paper, the principles and concepts of the psychosocial theory are discussed in relation to Riley’s