Facing and Accepting is the First Step of Dealing with Your Negative Emotions: Inside Out (2015) and A Monster Calls (2016)

Abstract

Generally speaking, people tend to hide their negative emotions. The reason behind this behaviour is due to the stereotype that negative emotions are bad, and it might even cause mental unhealthy issues, such as depression. However, by reading the process of the feelings of the protagonists in the animation Inside Out and the fantasy A Monster Calls in this paper, we can see that showing the true emotions, which can be negative sometimes, is the first and the most important step of dealing with the emotion problems.