Childhood What do i do with sad?

[ShariWP]

I know angry rage, it's like my best friend. After my last EMDR session my T was thrilled that for the first time I went past angry to sad. I am over my head in sad now and don't know what to do with it, how to get past it, it seems all I want to do is hide at home and cry, for everything. Does it end? How do I work threw it?

 

[Teasel]

If you can stop trying to escape it and allow yourself to feel it (in very short bursts to begin with) that wold be a start.

Emotions usually melt when you'e felt them. Not forever obviously but till next time.

 

[Ronin]

Distract it. Not with 'happy', but with anything that distracts it for you.

Or, depends what sadness does to you. For some people it's cathargic, helps getting it out and all.
For others like me? It's a 'shoot me now' brother and sooner or later changes into that land.
So distracting it as fast as possible.

 

[ShariWP]

Thank U, I am finding that a combination of them both work some what

 

[Mach123]

I know I am unable to go there and I resist or block it. Sometimes it peeks out at me and I stuff it back down quick before it can overwhelm me. If I had said that out loud I would have been in tears till I could quickly push it back. Thinking about saying it brings it like a wave sometimes. I know I have been doing this for years and it's just how it is for me. I guess it has to come out still. I know I have to do a thing with my little boy. I don't know if I will ever be able. The pictures are all gone, they were all lost. There are no pictures left of me when I was a child I don't think. I hated them. I used to hate looking at them. It was a long time until I realized I was doing that. That I felt that way about those pictures. (myself) I don't ever cry I don't think. I don't think I ever have as an adult? I tear up, then it goes. I wanted to cry when my father died and I did but I knew I couldn't feel it. Movies sometimes can make me cry actually but I don't know if that's real. It comes from somewhere, but not where I'm sad.