Definition of emotions

We have 6 basic emotions: the surprise, the happiness, the disgust, the wrath, the sadness and the fear. Like the fingers of a hand, they help us in different aspects in our life: they prepare us, activating different mechanisms in our organism; they motive us, giving us energy, to get closer or away of determined situations; and finally they help us relate with other people and beings (animals, plants…) therefore, our emotions are adaptive and help us in a lot of aspects of our life.

Like other elements of our body, the emotions can be “hurt”. IJust like we can get hit, make us a fissure, a sprain, a fracture in our hand…, on occasions our emotions can be malfunctioning. Then we talk about emotional disorders, that is to say, a temporal alteration of some or several of your emotions affects you in your daily life.

We professionals in mental health know and count with tools, just like a doctor uses an ointment, a bandage, a temporary immobilization of the hand if it’s hurt, that will help you solve your emotional problems. One of these tools is virtual reality.