I love how you put that --- and sad (for both of us) that I understood it completely
@mumst...
Yeah. It's ok-ish, I guess. It's a bit banal and inaccurate but I got given it at the hospital along with loads of other hand outs, some are really good articles.
I think this is ok if you use it just to think about the broader range of feeling words that we have available to us. It actually changes our brain-wiring when we name the emotion, which is a key part of recovery, but some of these faces are not too accurate and some of the words are wrong, for instance "guilty" is not a feeling so much as a reality, you either are or are not guilty of something, shame is a feeling that being guilty of something, can induce, or we can be manipulated to feel shame for someone else's crimes, but shame isn't listed. It's a big one for us ptsders, I believe.
This might be good for those who have not had too much expose to feeling words, but it's a very limited list and sometimes mixes up verbs with adjectives.
Concentrating is a doing word, not a feeling.
Aggression is not a feeling word, it is a action word. There are a host of feelings behind the acts of aggression, like fear, anger, assertion, courage, commitment, righteousness etc.
Idiotic is to have no political views, so it's more a sense of capacity than a feeling.
So yeah, I guess someone who considered themselves "educated" wrote this list and it's a good start for want of something better. I think the idea is sound but I would like to see a better, more comprehensive list with more accurate examples of expressions.
