Which emotion feels like a stone in the stomach?

Stupid question, but I get a bit confused about what emotion I'm feeling. I hear this is common.

I don't know if people even experience emotions the same way, but if you felt a heaviness in your stomach and a bit of an ache, what emotion would you say that's likely to be?

Dread? Yes recognizing emotions can be difficult.

It is hard to identify emotions to be sure. It sounds so excellent that you are identifying where and how your body feels. That's a very valid way to feel the feeling even if you don't have a label.

It makes me wonder if a possible strategy would be when you experience a common feeling for yourself, one that you can identify, if you allow yourself to feel the body sensations, this might allow a two way street and soon the body sensations will also offer some clarity about the actual feeling states.

Thank you I learned it in therapy, to try and notice where I was feeling something and attempt to put a word to the feeling. My feelings are not very intense, though, and they are very vague. I think they probably do have something to tell me if I could understand what they are. I have second guessed myself a lot of times, but I now think the feeling I'm describing might be disappointment.

There's a big 'might' there, though!

Do you ever feel silly about this stuff? I warned my latest therapist upfront that I'm not very good at identifying emotions. I didn't know I wasn't good at it until I was in therapy and my therapists used to ask me what I was feeling, or how I had felt about a certain memory, and I had no feeling to discuss with them. To me, my history is just a bunch of facts, I don't care about any of it - like I don't feel sad about it.

I tried to talk about emotions in my last session, which is where this post came from, but I felt ridiculous and I wondered whether the therapist would think I was putting it on. I was like a three-year-old trying to solve some kind of simple problem, I felt stupid about it.

Why don't you think about your thoughts? Where do they go and why you might feel like this. If you identify the thoughts that cause you this and identify what these thoughts mean to you. You can identify how you are feeling.

Orvel it's not that easy to identify what u feel if I've been denied feelin anything particular ur entire life. I'm with insertname. I've no idea what I feel or y. The only emotions I can identify are rage and extreme sadness. All other feelings r so foreign and when I feel and emotion I can't name it's frustrating to the point of infuriating. Don't u think we would name these feelings for T if we could? Y the hell do u think we are in therapy. I wish I coil identify them then I could have more normal reactions to things.

I don't mean to go off te deep end and get totally pissed about how misunderstood me and ppl like me are but wtf. All we can do is try and try and try some more. I don't even know y things like this piss me off it's just a persons ignorance to something they don't experience or kno themselves.

Another possibility is pretending you're a friend or a fictional character. If you don't have trouble empathizing with others you can imagine what someone else might feel in your situation. That helped me.

It's generally not my situation that's the problem. There's really nothing wrong in my life at all. I live a great life. The feelings seem unconnected.

Someone above said about listening to thoughts. My problem is actually that I am so cognitively aware that I sort of 'miss' the emotional experience - I don't notice how I feel because I'm concentrating on my thoughts. I have noticed sometimes that I feel bad when I'm not thinking anything upsetting, though.

What I ended up doing this time was imagining the feeling and seeing what images came up for me. What came up was not winning a competition where there was a prize I really wanted, which is how I came up with the feeling of 'disappointment'.

That seemed to help.

I've tried to do this before when I was doing CBT and they were saying things like 'how would someone feel in this situation' but I just ended up coming up with 'it depends what kind of person they are' - haha.

One therapist once did a great thing with me where to try and investigate how I felt about things I picked up stones and objects and so on that she brought to the room. And I would pick up a stone that remind me of Mam, pick up a stone that reminded me of Dad, and one that reminded me of my brother, and then talk about the similarities between the stone and those people, which helped me to focus on what it was I felt about them and helped me use 'physical' words, like 'spiky', for instance, and then I would be able to metaphorically connect the idea of 'spiky' to what kind of characteristics that person had and what 'spiky' feels like in emotional terms.

i get the stomach feeling when i'm really really depressed, it could be you need to eat something you're craving, i don't know much else but i just am saying what it means to me

Well the OP didn't specify what kind of problems he has.

Edit: After all this is a general subforum.