Lesson 6 - Common Emotional Problems

Question 1

What are the most common emotional problems in counseling?

Answer 1

Anger, anxiety, guilt, and shame

Question 2

What is anger?

Answer 2

A hurt you experience (a wound that is inflamed)

Question 3

When does anger become a sin?

Answer 3

When it is left to grow

Question 4

What are the 3 options you have with anger?

Answer 4

1. ) Denial
2. ) Passive/Agressive
3. ) Revenge

Question 5

When you deny anger, it always expresses itself. What are the 2 expressions it can have if you deny it?

Answer 5

1. ) Interjection - denial of anger, that eventually explodes
2. ) Retroflection - take anger out of oneself, instead of the person you should be angry at

Question 6

What is the solution to anger? Why?

Answer 6

Forgiveness;

• • it is commanded in Scripture
• • you have been forgiven vertically

Question 7

What is guilt?

Answer 7

Transgression which something is done

• • Exercise of power
• • Wrong doing
• • Wickedness
• • “I’m not good”

Question 8

What is the biblical answer to guilt?

Answer 8

Repentance and Reconciliation

Question 9

What is shame?

Answer 9

Weakness, inadequacy

• • Lack of power
• • Wrong Being
• • Worthlessness
• • “I’m no good”

Question 10

What is the biblical answer to shame?

Answer 10

Adoption (Ephesians 1-2)

Question 11

What 2 conditions are shame-oriented?

Answer 11

1. ) A sense in which you need to feel you are approved

2. ) the feeling that implies if you become perfect enough someone will love you