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Identify the different emotions in the example below and work out if they are healthy or unhealthy.

Sam is a 40‐year‐old man and has been married for three years. He is studying towards some professional qualifications and has to sit for his final exams in a couple of months. He is finding it difficult to concentrate when he sits down to revise. He keeps thinking that he will fail and, whenever he tries to revise, he ends up doing other work. When his wife tells him to sit down and get on with it he slams his books shut and shouts at her. After his outburst he ends up begging for forgiveness and thinks that he is a bad person.

* Answer at end of chapter

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