I didn't want to jack Chopin's thread with this question.

So Chopin's T reminds her that "feelings can lie." I suppose that makes sense when you think about it.

But it made me think of something that happened in therapy today that I wanted to bounce off of you guys.

At one point during the session he checked in with me to see how I was feeling or what I was thinking. What I found really surprised me. I had these really sad somewhat helpless feelings but absolutely no cognitive thoughts to go with them. They didn't make sense with the conversation we were having. They were, in a way, intrusive feelings (as opposed to intrusive thoughts).

I sat with them for a bit and still couldn't find a "reason" for them. As I sat there I kept feeling sad and very, very small -- both physically and emotionally.

So I wonder. Was this some sort of emotion from my pre-verbal childhood? Is that why there were no words/reasons for the feelings, just the feelings?

What we were talking about at the time truly had nothing to do with the unbidden feelings. And believe me -- I can find reasons for and connections between things like nobody's business. If I were in a therapy beauty pageant it would be my "talent."

So what do you think? And also, what do you think about Chopin's T's statement that feelings can lie?