Hey, thanks for trying Let's see if I understood you too lol.

I didn't read the ACT book yet, just looked at a few sections, so I didn't know for sure that it says that...

"Don't try to change emotions or dwell on them, let them be as they are, just go ahead and take actions towards your goals."

This is exactly how I used to be before things went for the worse. So I know what this is like, yes.

But I abused my ability to do that, too much. Like I had no idea I entered a toxic relationship deeper and deeper for 4 years, in 2014. I kept taking actions towards the goal of trying to help the person and I believed it would help both of us too (long story). I didn't pay attention to how negative the person was and how they got more and more negative. While I put my heart and a lot of my soul into it all (not all of it or I'd be dead now lol). Again, long story... And then I had trauma from something else and then this crashed on me too and now I can't do that anymore.

And then your interpretation of what I was saying: "I would love to do that but the emotions are so dominating that my brain shuts down and I then I cannot take the actions needed to advance towards my goals."

I think I would rephrase only one thing in here:

"I would love to do that but the emotions are probably so threatening (?)/cannot be contained that my brain shuts down so I don't have to see and feel the emotions, but that creates a block and then I cannot take the actions needed to advance towards my goals."

I didn't want to use the word "dominating" because I mean, if the emotions were dominating then I would be directly experiencing a flood of emotions....? But that block prevents that. The block dominates