Frustration - Wikipedia

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For the term frustration as used in contract law, see Frustration of purpose. For the board game, see Trouble (board game).

Frustration is a human emotion that occurs in situations where one's goals remain unreachable indefinitely. These goals are important to a person and one holds on to them despite their elusiveness. Person's goals can also be unreachable due to the structure of the society and the society's conditioning of the individual through hierarchy and social status.

In terms of psychology, passive-aggressive behavior is a method of dealing with frustration.

Frustration may lead to downfall and deviation, because it wastes precious thinking ability and attention, which otherwise would have been used elsewhere in constructive and/or creative work. In some cases, it might lead to obsession or addiction.

Frustration should be regarded as an useful indicator of the problems in a person's life, in order to regain balance, and may represent problems in the society as a whole.

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Emotions	Acceptance Admiration Adoration Aesthetic Affection Agitation Agony Amusement Anger Angst Anguish Annoyance Anticipation Anxiety Apathy Arousal Attraction Awe Belongingness Boredom Calmness Compassion Confidence Confusion Contempt Contentment Courage Cruelty Curiosity Defeat Depression Desire Disappointment Disgust Distrust Doubt Ecstasy Embarrassment vicarious Emotion work Empathy Emptiness Enthrallment Enthusiasm Envy Euphoria Excitement Faith Fear Flow Frustration Gratification Gratitude Greed Grief Guilt Happiness Joie de vivre Hatred Hiraeth Homesickness Hope Horror Hostility Humiliation Hygge Hysteria Ikigai (sense of purpose) Indulgence Infatuation Insecurity Inspiration Interest Irritation Isolation Jealousy Joy Kindness Loneliness Love limerence at first sight Lust Mono no aware Neglect Nostalgia Outrage Panic Passion Pity self-pity Pleasure Pride grandiosity hubris insult vanity Rage Regret Rejection Relief Remorse Resentment Revenge Sadness melancholy Saudade Schadenfreude Sehnsucht Sentimentality Shame Shock Shyness Social connection Sorrow Spite Stress chronic Suffering Surprise Sympathy Trust Wonder sense of wonder Worry
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