If anyone is still interested in what my T;s thoughts on the purpose of feelings are, here it is. He said feelings are how we see and interact with the world and how the world sees and interacts with us. They give different colours to our perception (this was a reference to a colourblindness talk we had. If I was suddenly not colourblind I could see the colour red but I can't unsee it now I know what it is,) My limited set of feelings mainly happy, sd and angry have served a purpose some where in my life and over the last 10-15 years I have "discovered" they don't serve me so well. So coming to therapy is broadening my repertoire of feelings so I can better interact with the world instead of just sometimes riding roughshod over people s feelings because I didn't know they had any. Apparently this will make my life easier. We will see.
Did that make sense? I am so so tired