[celtic.starlite]

I mentioned in another thread that I am working on learning what I am feeling. Long story short, I had to learn not to feel in order to survive my childhood.

My T has started working on feelings/emotions with me. I'm trying to assess my feelings daily and I'm seeing how sometimes I feel something and other times I don't. I have friends who say there is always some kind of feeling. They tell me I'm numbing myself so I don't feel, which I know I do numb myself but I have been trying not to.

Is it true do people always feel something?

[celtic.starlite]

Sorry I didn't mean to duplicate this thread. I don't know how to delete this one.

[pkey]

Originally Posted by celtic.starlite

Is it true do people always feel something?

Hi!

I also struggle sometimes with feeling and identifying emotions. I find that when I am concentrating on some task, I get "lost" in the process and don't feel anything at all. I am really interested in Flow (a term in psychology), and that is a state where I think everything is put on suspension. I feel like you would get really tired if you felt something ALL of the time. But one cool thing about flow is that after you finish the task and exit the flow state, you feel a rush of positive emotion!

I hope that this helped - its hard to find the right place/time to ask these kinds of questions, and that usually means that it is hard to learn this stuff in the first place. I think that nobody really learns this emotional intelligence because it is never taught or talked about. I'm pretty new to this site and its great that these kinds of discussions are happening on here.