An emotion is characterized by feelings of pleasantness or unpleasantness (cognitive) accompanied by physiological modifications (physiological), that lead to behavioral reactions (expressive). Emotions have three components: Cognitive, Physiological and Expressive components. Cognitive component are the conscious experience of emotions and the way they are labeled. Six primary emotions are: Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness and Surprise.
Other emotions are: Contempt, Guilt, Interest, and Shame. According the Plutchik, there are eight other emotion with polar opposites, in which if gradation in intensity is applied can lead to different feelings. These opposite emotions are:
Joy-sadness
Acceptance-disgust
Fear-anger
Surprise-anticipation.
For the past three days, I have experienced anger, contempt, disgust, distress, fear, guilt, interest, joy, shame, and surprise as follows:
Anger 2
Contempt 2
Disgust 2
Distress 6
Fear 1
Guilt 1
Interest 0
Joy 2
Shame 3
Surprise 2
The physiological components of emotions that are known to accompany Distress, I experienced.
English: Managing emotions - Identifying feelings
Figure 15 from Charles Darwin's The Expression of ...
EmotionI have had a few really bad anxiety attacks associated with muscle tension and headaches, gastro-intestinal upset, changes in heart rate and blood circulation, and rapid, shallow breathing.