Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid Dr. Guy Winch is a psychologist who spent nine years at a university in New York City earning his doctorate in psychology. On November 2014, Dr. Winch had a talk on TED Talk which was “Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid.” Dr. Winch makes his point during his talk; it is to emphasize emotional hygiene, not just our physical hygiene so that we are able to overcome failure, loneliness, and rejection with a strong mindset. He claims that we seek medical advice when our bodies feel sick, yet we are hesitant to ask for help when our minds are in agony. To grab the attention of his audience, Dr. Winch used pathos throughout his video with various examples. There are three stories he
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Winch shared another story with the audience was his friend who was recently divorced and had started dating again, who got rejected on her first date. Dr. Winch described how poor his friend’s emotional hygiene was in the story and quotes what one of the woman’s friend said that night, “Well, what do you expect? You have big hips, you have nothing interesting to say. Why would a handsome, successful man like that ever go out with a loser like you?” (Winch). The first reaction of the audience was complete shock by hearing what the woman’s friend said, but later realizing that the woman was the one who said that to herself not her “friend.” Dr. Winch talked about how we call ourselves names and start thinking about all our faults after rejection, we do this because our self-esteem is hurting. When our self-esteem is low, we are more vulnerable to stress, and it takes longer to recover from an obstacle. Dr. Winch shared this story because most of us can have felt rejected at least once in our lives. Therefore, teaching emotional hygiene can help us build a stronger self-esteem and mindset. The last story Dr. Winch shared was about his twin brother when he was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and he explained how poor his emotional hygiene was
Winch shared another story with the audience was his friend who was recently divorced and had started dating again, who got rejected on her first date. Dr. Winch described how poor his friend’s emotional hygiene was in the story and quotes what one of the woman’s friend said that night, “Well, what do you expect? You have big hips, you have nothing interesting to say. Why would a handsome, successful man like that ever go out with a loser like you?” (Winch). The first reaction of the audience was complete shock by hearing what the woman’s friend said, but later realizing that the woman was the one who said that to herself not her “friend.” Dr. Winch talked about how we call ourselves names and start thinking about all our faults after rejection, we do this because our self-esteem is hurting. When our self-esteem is low, we are more vulnerable to stress, and it takes longer to recover from an obstacle. Dr. Winch shared this story because most of us can have felt rejected at least once in our lives. Therefore, teaching emotional hygiene can help us build a stronger self-esteem and mindset. The last story Dr. Winch shared was about his twin brother when he was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and he explained how poor his emotional hygiene was