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Robert Plutchik created a wheel of emotions. This wheel is used to illustrate different emotions compelling and nuanced.

He suggested 8 primary bipolar emotions: joy versus sadness; anger versus fear; trust versus disgust; and surprise versus anticipation. Additionally, his circumplex model makes connections between the idea of an emotion circle and a color wheel.

Like colors, primary emotions can be expressed at different intensities and can mix with one another to form different emotions.

Robert Plutchik's psychoevolutionary theory of emotion is one of the most influential classification approaches for general emotional responses. He considered there to be eight primary emotions - anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise, anticipation, trust, and joy.

Plutchik proposed that these 'basic' emotions are biologically primitive and have evolved in order to increase the reproductive fitness of the animal. Plutchik argues for the primacy of these emotions by showing each to be the trigger of behaviour with high survival value, such as the way fear inspires the fight-or-flight response. Plutchik's psychoevolutionary theory of basic emotions has ten postulates.

The concept of emotion is applicable to all evolutionary levels and applies to animals as well as to humans.
Emotions have an evolutionary history and have evolved various forms of expression in different species.
Emotions served an adaptive role in helping organisms deal with key survival issues posed by the environment.
Despite different forms of expression of emotions in different species, there are certain common elements, or prototype patterns, that can be identified.
There is a small number of basic, primary, or prototype emotions.
All other emotions are mixed or derivative states; that is, they occur as combinations, mixtures, or compounds of the primary emotions.
Primary emotions are hypothethical constructs or idealized states whose properties and characteristics can only be inferred from various kinds of evidence.
Primary emotions can be conceptualized in terms of pairs of polar opposites.
All emotions vary in their degree of similarity to one another.
Each emotion can exist in varying degrees of intensity or levels of arousal

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Anxiety Circles. The Circle of Anxiety, how anxiety feeds itself:-
		External events, (or what other people doing or saying), trigger a subconscious memory, these subconscious memory's may be suppressed and not directly understand or realized. These events cause the release of, (at least), adrenaline, (adrenaline rush), which in turn cause unpleasant biological feelings, these in turn cause more, (or the adrenaline release not to stopping), being released. The person can not get out of the situation, quickly, or does not know how to, (fight or flight), so it circle goes around and around. The person may learn, learned conditioning, to avoidance the situation and this may develop in to a phobia. Because these subconscious memory's may be suppressed and not directly understand or realized other people may stigmatize the person and this leads to further negative feedback to that person, this maintaining the anxiety circle or even compounds it more. Counteract negativity with positive words of affirmation The circle of anxiety may not only trigger unpleasant biological feelings but also reinforce the subconscious memory even more. Anything that can be done to break this circle of anxiety, (such as relaxation and affirmations), is usually said to be a good thing to do. The biological feelings may in addition have a further feedback of external events and how other people react to you. This could result in negative feedback reinforcing and increasing your own anxiety Phobia and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Acute Stress Disorder (ASD). Adrenaline is a hormone produced by the adrenal gland in the body of many animals. When it is produced in the body it stimulates the heart-rate, contracts blood vessels, dilates air passages, and has a number of more minor effects. Adrenaline is naturally produced in high-stress or physically exhilarating situations.

		Leeds Student Medical Practice "Bad with your nerves", "A worrier", "Stressed out", "Unable to relax", "Tense and nervous"... are all words we might use to describe someone who has a problem with anxiety. If someone has too much stress for too long anxiety is very often the result. This booklet is about anxiety, and aims to help you to: Recognise whether or not you may be suffering from symptoms of anxiety. Understand what anxiety is, what can cause it, and what can keep it going. Overcome your anxiety by learning better ways of coping with it. What is Anxiety? Anxiety is something we all experience from time to time. It is a normal response to situations that we see as threatening to us. For example, if we had to go into hospital for an operation, or had to sit a driving test, or take an exam, it would be natural to feel anxious. Anxiety at certain levels can even be helpful in some situations like when we need to perform well, or cope with an emergency. Some anxiety is not at all helpful because: Symptoms of anxiety whilst not dangerous, can be uncomfortable. Symptoms can also be frightening particularly if someone does not know that these symptoms are just signs of anxiety. Sometimes people with anxiety symptoms worry that they may have something seriously wrong with them. This worry can then produce more anxiety symptoms which of course increases the worry! When anxiety is severe and goes on for a long time it can stop people doing what they want to do. Am I suffering from anxiety? "I worry about everything, I get tense and wound up, and end up snapping at the children". " Even before I get there I start to worry about all the things that might go wrong. When I arrive my heart starts to pound, my legs turn to jelly and I just know I'm going to make a fool of myself. I have to get out". "It feels as though there is something in my throat. My mouth is dry and I can't swallow properly and then I begin to get panicky. I think I'm going to stop breathing. My mind starts to race, I feel like I'm going to lose control and go mad or something". These are some typical experiences of people who suffer from anxiety. If you are suffering from anxiety you may have thoughts like these yourself. Sometimes it is possible to be suffering from anxiety and not even know it, particularly if you don't think of yourself as an anxious person. People often mistake symptoms of anxiety for a physical illness. Therefore, the first step in learning to deal with anxiety is recognising whether anxiety is a problem for you. Anxiety can affect us in at least four different ways. It affects: The way we feel. The way we think. The way our body works. The way we behave.