My T wants me to be able to name emotions so that she can attempt to understand how I am feeling -- which is hard when my emotional vocab is basically just "sad, happy, angry." But even though she gave me this dumb "emotions wheel" -- am I a child? -- I still cannot name my emotions. That's because they are feelings, they're not words. Feelings are complex and for me they're better explained in allegories than in simple words.
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