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View Poll Results: Do you find it hard to recognise your emotions? | |
Yes, I struggle to recognise what I am feeling emotionally
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I sometimes find I struggle to recognise what I am feeling emotionally
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No
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I don't know
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29-04-2008, 12:18 PM
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Lisa- Emotions? I think that I am flat or numb. Yet I do have a memory of wonderful emotions but just can't seem to get their. The doc will say "Describe how you felt or are feeling?" Huh? I seem to have lost my grasp of language and am at a loss for words. I am willing to face my fears and hope that healthy emotion will bring color to my life. Good Luck
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01-06-2008, 12:46 PM
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Sorry to bring this back to the top as it hadn't been replied to in a while. This is a big issue for me as well. I just name feelings I figure I should be feeling, but I actually "feel" very few emotions. Most people I say this to just don't get it. It was refreshing, in a sad way, to see others struggle with this as well. |
02-06-2008, 09:44 AM
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My biggest problems with emotions is that they are delayed (still!). Something happens and it takes anywhere from hours to days for me to recognize the emotions that I'm feeling about what happened. By then it's pretty much too late to say or do anything about an incident or issue.
It's not as bad as it was before...but not by much. A lot of my emotional reactions are still pretty new to me. Too bad they don't match up with where I am in life.
Lisa |
20-06-2008, 05:41 AM
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| |  Question Do You Have Difficulty Recognising Your Emotions?
I have no idea what I am really feeling unless it is anger fear or a mixture of both. I just seem to stay disconnected most of the time. So I would have to say I seldom recongnise any emotion in me. Great thinking question! Thanks:) |
23-06-2008, 12:48 AM
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Originally Posted by judyandsus  I have no idea what I am really feeling unless it is anger fear or a mixture of both. I just seem to stay disconnected most of the time. So I would have to say I seldom recongnise any emotion in me. Great thinking question! Thanks:) | This sounds so much like me! I'm often overwhelmed with fear and anger, that being said I rarley deal with those feelings or address the causes. For me I just learned from a very early age that what I was "feeling" was unimportant. For me, no abuse is unforgivable because, I am able to totally evade any honest feeling. Like another contributor said... "I yearn to feel the pain burried deep inside me and finally cry! I honestly feel that my emotional development was totally stunted. I've only recently sought help for my "issues" but I'm trying to be hopeful! Hey that's an emotion. |
24-06-2008, 04:59 AM
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I find that I can talk about my emotions(with no feeling) easily. I have difficulty just feeling my emotions. ???dissociation??? |
15-08-2008, 05:38 AM
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I do emotion 'off-line', I go through the experience like an android and then at some point; anything from a couple of hours to a couple of days, begin to feel something - that is actually progress, it used to be a couple of decades late! Presently, I am learning to recognize that I am not feeling when I should be and to my surprise have even had a few moment of intense feeling actually in a moment when I should have them. Progress, but they get scared off too quickly. It is quite funny actually ... one moment - intense anger with tears in the middle of an argument - and then .. back to the android. |
19-08-2008, 01:10 PM
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I know I have them...but I am not always aware of what they are. I find that a lot of the time I can rationalize why I shouldn't feel a certain way, but I certainly can't label most.
It's ironic though, I have books on every emotion, that I read to my kids, to teach THEM how to recognize, now if only I could do the same for myself!?
:)
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19-08-2008, 08:15 PM
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How ironic. My therapist and I were covering this topic last week. I grew up not being able to display "negative" emotions and so learned early on to numb, avoid, and disassociate myself from my feelings. So now I will do almost anything to avoid any feeling. I have no idea how to put a name to things going on inside me much less what to do with it.
Glad and sad to see I'm not the alone :I
Hugs! |
21-08-2008, 09:56 AM
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Yes! I thought it was a function of my gender. my wife always asks me how I feel about situations and things that she tells me. she can't comprehend that I really have no idea what my feelings are. I take a loooong time to process. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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