I've worked on recognizing and tolerating my emotions w/T a lot, too. It's a big part of DBT. At first I couldn't do it, at all. She would ask me what I was feeling and I had no idea, and I would get pretty distressed because I felt like I HAD to have an answer for her but I didn't have one, just a big blank.

I remember when I first started "unfreezing", first started feeling things, I kind of thought I was going crazy, I remember telling a friend "I don't know what's wrong with me, I have these crazy mood swings all the time, sometimes from one minute to the next" and she said "zoo, I don't think those are mood swings, I think those are feelings..." I had no idea!

Now, I sometimes miss that numbness, especially when I'm flooded with flashbacks and crap from the past. I told my T one day that I wish I could have a lobotomy so I wouldn't have to feel my emotions any more and she said "but then you wouldn't feel any of the GOOD emotions either". Sometimes it seems like all the emotions I feel are the hard ones, it's good to remember there are some NICE ones too!