List Of Emotions And Emotional Responses

[The Albatross]

Whew, I can connect to most of the list... but it wasn't always that way. I am though prone to click more with the neutral or negative, and rarely the more positive ones. I got a starting point I guess, thanks for bumping this thread.

 

[Abstract]

I have been reading the list....and re-reading,and still having a hard time. But I will keep trying.

Hi Jadbear,
I don't know if this applies but as I have gined in self awareness I find I come across new feelings I can't identify. At the start I had almost no awareness or ability to identify feelings but have been pretty good for a while.... and then discover a new one.

I actually think it is good sign usaually.
Some DBT meterial can be very useful as it gives specific body sensations that can lead one along the trail a bt.

 

[BrazenBull]

I think most of our problems, inclusing my own is that we have trouble putting feelings into words. :X
This could be useful thanks :)

 

[OKRADLAK]

Great list! Thanks, Anthony. When I am feeling worse, I have a harder time. Sometimes I feel bad but my brain is clear. I can get the emotions then. Then there are times I feel OK but my brain is totally fogged. Then I don't know anymore.

Jade--- I also get that where I am feeling something very deeply and it does not fit any.

It feels like "injustice"-----but that is not a feeling. It is not anger. It is not depression.

I can describe it-----it is a huge huge feeling of being squashed, demeaned, invalidated, removed from your place in this earth.......but what the feeling is? To just say "anger" greatly demeans the feeling itself!

It is so big that if I could harness it, I could move the earth. In fact, I have used the energy of that emotion to do things I could not otherwise.

It is what causes people like Napoleon to go to war.It's not just rage.

Not just anger....Any ideas?

 

[Vee Lagrome]

I can describe it-----it is a huge huge feeling of being squashed, demeaned, invalidated, removed from your place in this earth.......but what the feeling is? To just say "anger" greatly demeans the feeling itself!

It is so big that if I could harness it, I could move the earth. In fact, I have used the energy of that emotion to do things I could not otherwise.

It is what causes people like Napoleon to go to war.It's not just rage.

Not just anger....Any ideas?

You know, I struggle to describe this feeling too. Ugh, I HATE feeling this way because I want to throw myself off a cliff when I do. It's too much emotion for me to handle.

I think that it's humiliation or degradation. I know when I feel that way, I want to enslave all of humanity as a way of proving to the world (or myself? :O_o:) that I'm not a worthless pile of :poop: that people can just insult or demean when they're in a bad mood (not a punching bag - thank you very much).

I think it's the feeling of being humiliated by something that brings on the anger, resentment, rage, and whatever else. My therapist told me that my anger problems were me trying to shift my attention away from the humiliation, utter embarrassment, and fear because I am more comfortable feeling anger than feeling humiliated and/or degraded.

 

[OKRADLAK]

It is humiliation. The kind that moves armies and stuff. It's no fun!!

 

[Zemi]

I like the list and it's great to have; I wish I knew better how to distinguish between the different emotions. So often it's easy to lump everything as scared/nervous/angry/sad when those words don't really describe what is going on and yet they seem to be the only ones I can come up with when I try to explain things.