• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
        16·
        3 months ago

        To this day I don’t understand this. My therapist used to ask this so many times and every time I was like:?? In my brain??? Where thoughts and feelings live???

        Can someone explain?

        Edit: the fact that you nice people here were able to make me understand this question and my therapist did not reinforces why I stopped going!

        • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          There’s definitely some physical manifestations of your strongest emotions. Strong feelings of fear or anger trigger musclular reactions in your belly, strong feelings of anxiety or tension in your neck, love and contentment in your chest, etc.

          Perhaps they were trying to find those physical connections to gauge the emotion or intensity?

        • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          3 months ago

          It’s the physical manifestation thing. It also helps you try to be more mindful of your feelings. For instance, if you normally feel anxiety in your jaw, and you find your jaw tightening again in whatever situation you find yourself in, you might see if you can slow down and think of your next steps. Why am I feeling anxious? Should I take a break?

          This only really made sense to me for the emotions that I strongly felt physically, like anxiety so bad I would get tunnel vision. For smaller physical reactions, not so much.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    lol I have absolutely had sessions like that with my old therapist after explaining why I’m so panicky sometimes, because I understand at a nuanced and historically informed level what’s happening at a political and geopolitical level here, and all of my bleakest predictions keep coming true

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      It would be really helpful for the depression if I could stop being proven terribly correct every single time anything happens.

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      3 months ago

      I know what you mean. I largely predicted what is happening now back in 2015, and in this case it was my husband, not my therapist, who told me he believes “the system of checks and balances won’t allow it to happen.” He is an optimist and wanted to believe the US was still a good country. He now agrees with me and gets sad and angry any time something new and horrible happens.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Same, and around the same timeframe.

        I never thought that being a history and current events enthusiast would become such a curse. This is some monkey’s paw bullshit :(