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Originally Posted by JRIS
It is hard to identify emotions to be sure. It sounds so excellent that you are identifying where and how your body feels. That's a very valid way to feel the feeling even if you don't have a label.
It makes me wonder if a possible strategy would be when you experience a common feeling for yourself, one that you can identify, if you allow yourself to feel the body sensations, this might allow a two way street and soon the body sensations will also offer some clarity about the actual feeling states.
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Thank you
I learned it in therapy, to try and notice where I was feeling something and attempt to put a word to the feeling. My feelings are not very intense, though, and they are very vague. I think they probably do have something to tell me if I could understand what they are. I have second guessed myself a lot of times, but I now think the feeling I'm describing might be disappointment.
There's a big 'might' there, though!
Do you ever feel silly about this stuff? I warned my latest therapist upfront that I'm not very good at identifying emotions. I didn't know I wasn't good at it until I was in therapy and my therapists used to ask me what I was feeling, or how I had felt about a certain memory, and I had no feeling to discuss with them. To me, my history is just a bunch of facts, I don't care about any of it - like I don't feel sad about it.
I tried to talk about emotions in my last session, which is where this post came from, but I felt ridiculous and I wondered whether the therapist would think I was putting it on. I was like a three-year-old trying to solve some kind of simple problem, I felt stupid about it.