People who have suffered traumatic life experiences go through a wide range of emotions throughout their lives, and most of these emotions are detrimental to their the person's mental and physical health. Specifically, these individuals navigate fear by reliving their traumatic life experience or sadness through the victimization process they are likely to undergo. Emotions have four main components: feelings, bodily arousal, sense of purpose, and social expressiveness. Recognizing these negative emotions will help alleviate the aversive symptoms of research participants for treatment of their trauma spectrum disorder. Fear and sadness can have both positive and negative consequences, and managing these emotions is a challenging but worthwhile undertaking. The four basic components of fear and sadness include feelings, bodily arousal, sense of purpose, and social expressive components. Bodily arousal includes biological aspects such as neural circuits and hormonal responses to situations that induce fear and sadness. The brain's amygdala and prefrontal cortex heavily influence fear processing, and people with damage to these areas of the brain have shown marginalized or absent responses to fear. Specifically, the neural pathway of fear occurs in the lateral amygdala, up to the central nucleus of the amygdala, then to areas of the brain that process and control defensive behavior through autonomic and endocrine responses. Colloquially called the fight-or-flight response, it allows a person to engage in direct action to stop the fear-inducing agent or to move away from the agent. The sympathetic branch of the autonomic system activates during these situations causing... half a sheet of paper... about it, or asking expert swimmers for information. Simply learning the situation that induces the emotion can sometimes alleviate the severity of the emotional response. In summary, a person can overcome their aversive situation through breathing techniques or by reshaping their perception of the situation through information learned about it. People who experience traumatic life events experience a wide spectrum of emotions, particularly fear and sadness. Although these two emotions are generally considered aversive, they can also provide benefits to the person such as learning new coping methods for future success or increased creativity. Overall, there are four main components of fear and sadness, and if a person understands these components, he or she can more appropriately engage in corrective actions when faced with fearful or sad situations...