Short video on how to educate our patients about Primary Emotion vs Secondary Emotion

As a family Doctor, it is not uncommon for me to see folks with anger issues, and this can have a significant impact on their relationship with their families, partner, spouse, children, friends, and the people they work with. It is important to understand that underlying anger, we may find fear and anxiety, and underlying anxiety, we may find loneliness and disconnection. Loneliness or disconnection is the primary emotion. Anger is on the surface. Once we can address the disconnection at the primary level, then it may lead to less fear and anxiety, and then less anger. So the main message here is to acknowledge and fix the problem of anger at the core rather on the surface level. Understanding primary, secondary and tertiary emotion is a very important part of emotional literacy, which will help one to process emotion, and to better manage one's relationship with others.