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Old Jan 28, 2016, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by nervous puppy View Post
When I've had difficulty answering T's questions, I've asked T to make it multiple choice.
For instance, for a long time I wasn't able to label or name my emotions, or even feel them for that matter. So when T would ask me how it felt when "x" happened, I would say "I don't know". Finally I asked somewhat jokingly, "can you make that a multiple choice question?" and she did. It was soooo much easier! I just couldn't come up with the words for myself.
After that, when she saw me struggling for words, she would start throwing out words for me to choose from.
It wasn't that she was trying to suggest that I felt a certain way, she was really just trying to unstick my brain to get me to verbalize the feelings.
Current T will see this too and suggest words. I'm usually like, "no, no, not that, it's more like this". But it helps to get me unstuck, I guess.

Hope that helps.
Thanks for the reply!

It's not so much labelling emotions that I have trouble with it is more other questions T asks. One in particular that confuses me is "What does that mean for you?". Like she will ask that if I say something like "I feel as though I'm not good enough". When she asks that I really don't know what to say because I'm like it means that I feel like I'm not good enough, what else is there to say?? Definitely going to ask for some clarification on that question! haha