Posted by TamaraJ on June 1, 2005, at 16:02:01
In reply to ideas for figuring out feelings?, posted by Shortelise on June 1, 2005, at 13:30:17
Well, I am not always the best at sorting out what I am feeling, and for years (up until a number of months ago), I just ran on sheer adrenaline and didn't even try to analyse what I was thinking or feeling emotionally. It was just go, go, go! Now I am trying to pay attention to what's going on inside me. So, when I feel agitated or anxious, I step back (or try to) and ask myself what's happened recently (perhaps days, hours, minutes) or going on in my life that may have brought these feelings on. Same thing when I start to feel down - check the calendar (could it be PMS), think about conversations I had or even something I saw on t.v. I am trying not to tell myself anymore that I shouldn't feel like this or feel like that because I think I am entitled to my emotions and reactions. I just am using self-talk and some kind of self-analysis to at least understand where some of the emotions are coming from so that I don't freak out or think I am going around the bend.
Hope you can find a way to deal with this and figure things out. I know it is unnerving to feel that way.
Take care.
Tamara
> I can't seem to sort out what I'm feeling. About therapy, about myself, about anything ... I mean, I know what I'll make for dinner tonight, it's not at that level. It's more emotional. Like, when I think about therapy, it's as though there's such a range of emotion, in all directions, that I just can't sort out how I feel.
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> Does anyone have a sort of model for figuring things out? I know that's incredibly vague, but what I mean is, do you have a way of working out what your ffeelings are when things are really confused?
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> This is asking a lot. I'm just really mixed up. And that low-grade depression is on the horizon again.
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> Thanks.
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> ShortE
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