Obese diabetic patients, especially women, feel their physicians provoke feelings of being stuck, defiance, guilt or shame [ 12].
Developmental and clinical psychologist Diane Ehrensaft, PhD., notes that transgender youth often struggle during the onset of puberty, where unwelcome physical changes can provoke feelings of entrapment in a gender that just doesn't feel right.
But at least I provoke feelings!
For many, airplanes, skyscrapers and even elevators provoke feelings of fear.
Looking back on how much I used to care and manage never fails to provoke feelings of guilt.
It's not unusual for people seeing a counsellor to talk about painful things and, as you'd expect, many people find that those conversations can provoke feelings of sadness and anger.
"To be 'Oliver Stone', whoever that is, is to provoke feelings in people before they've met me," he says with some exasperation, hunched forward in an armchair in his tidy Santa Monica office.
Antidotes: Conversations with old people, particularly performers; talks with grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, mentors and teachers; regular vacations; spiritual and mental rest techniques that can provoke feelings of awe; yoga; scheduled daily physical workouts.
While wealthy individuals elicit feelings of admiration, they also provoke feelings of envy and competition in others.
Moreover, urban green space may provoke (feelings of) social unsafety, and tick bites may make people ill.
