What I found with my emotions was that I had no idea what the emotions were that I was feeling.....I was always so logical, I thought that people where either logical or emotional & my mother was definitely emotional & I didn't want to be anything like her so I worked hard at being logical......however it wasn't until just 2 years ago (age 58) & I was in a wonderful DBT group working on the emotional regulation section of the group that I found out what all the emotions I had been feeling that I even denied existed for me before I realized that every human feels the emotions....we just don't always recognize them & definitely if we don't recognize them, we can't put words to them to describe.

I always knew my angry emotion & my sad & happy emotions.....but I had no idea that there were several pages full of emotions that I didn't even know were emotions....started really being able to put words to them once I recognized what emotions really were.....we are never to old to learn which made me feel really good.

I know that the frustration of feeling emotions & not being able to put the words to what I didn't even realize I was feeling definitely made me cry...but I didn't know why until I was able to start learning about emotions & then relating them to what I was feeling & only then could I figure out how to put words to what I was finally realizing I was feeling.