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Originally Posted by Favorite Jeans
I really love Artley’s example about reframing and it’s clear how useful that type of exercise could be. But Pixie, despite the value of that kind of work, there might be times that you’re not up for it and that’s okay. You might just need to vent sometimes. People who haven’t been allowed to have all their feelings might need a bit of time to just figure out what emotions even are and how they experience them before they attempt reframing. I don’t know if that’s what you mean by avoiding emotion?
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I apologise for posting another post, but this thread is like...wow. I really had a lot to say. So I wanted to ask, what do you mean by people not being allowed to have all their feelings?
What about people who just simply don't care to have so many feelings all the time? Comfortable with being detached and dismissing most feelings right away. But then this bites them in the arse eventually : p so they have to focus a bit more on them....That's been me
So I'm just asking have you ever seen any difference between individual people with regard to this? I just always had the sense that this doesn't fit me, the idea of not having been allowed to have all my feelings
Like something really doesn't fit about it and by now I've learned to listen to that sense, that shows me that the concept or idea or statement from standard psychology doesn't entirely fit me. I've learned that trying to ignore that sense would end up with me or a therapist trying to fit the square peg into the round hole