Hi Kamidogu, welcome to Psych Central!
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Originally Posted by Kamidogu
All I feel is anger, and I never know if I'm happy or sad about something.... I can't tell if what I do is causing joy or sadness, but I know I feel angry, ad I don't know how to express it.
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If this isn't a good time to be running this by you, by all means ignore it. Many months ago we were discussing anger in another forum and in an entirely different context, and a member happened to share this:
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Originally Posted by Elysium
One thing that we learn in DBT is that anger is considered a secondary emotion. It acts as a coping skill almost for other emotions such as fear, disgust, sorrow, to block a person from feeling these emotions.
So my anger I had towards it really wasn't anger at all, I learned. It was fear!! Fear of failure, fear of something new, and even the fear of getting better, because if I got better, then I wouldn't know who I was anymore. Who would I be without all these issues? It's a scary question for anybody.
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If anything like that were going on for you, you might be right in the middle of it and have some difficulty seeing the forest for the trees. Still, I was wondering what kind of sense, if any, Elysium's comment makes to you.