Kubash16
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How do you know when you’ve tapped into the emotions behind your traumas?
Say when you’re a kid things (traumatic things) happen, but looking back on them you feel nothing. As if that kid is not a part of you, a completely different life that you essentially dissociated away.
I know emotions were felt but my brain hid them from me for lack of a better analogy to keep me safe from how intense they are/would be. I’ve had a lot of anger spill out over the years, much more intensely this year.
But I know that anger is a secondary emotion to fear and hurt and all that good stuff. I’m starting to feel the hurt, but no fear. Unless there is threatened or imagined abandonment which is a whole other story.
How do you access those deeper emotions on a more permanent basis than a fleeting glimpse of total realization of what happened?
How do you know when you’ve really felt and let out everything pent up inside?
Say when you’re a kid things (traumatic things) happen, but looking back on them you feel nothing. As if that kid is not a part of you, a completely different life that you essentially dissociated away.
I know emotions were felt but my brain hid them from me for lack of a better analogy to keep me safe from how intense they are/would be. I’ve had a lot of anger spill out over the years, much more intensely this year.
But I know that anger is a secondary emotion to fear and hurt and all that good stuff. I’m starting to feel the hurt, but no fear. Unless there is threatened or imagined abandonment which is a whole other story.
How do you access those deeper emotions on a more permanent basis than a fleeting glimpse of total realization of what happened?
How do you know when you’ve really felt and let out everything pent up inside?
