phil6
07-12-13, 18:37
I am Currently doing CBT training.
One of the tools you learn to help with your anxiety is to identify, label, and describe an emotion as it happens, in the moment.
I find this very difficult. I know that anxiety is very much connected to fear, but I get very confused over what emotion I am actually feeling.
The sensation that most upsets me the feeling of almost home sickness. It is a feeling in the pit of my stomach that I don't belong and that I need to leave, even if I am at home. It's a feeling that makes you feel vulnerable. When the feelings arises it removes all my confidence and makes me feel that I need to do something about it. Is it self consciousness,
Is this simply fear.?
It always feels that there is something more to it than simply fear, but maybe I am complicating things too much. There is also an urge to fall into despair and get tearful, so depression is also part of this. The feeling just takes me to a dark place. A place that I feel I need to get out of and that I need to resolve.
CBT simply suggests that it helps to identify, label and describe the emotion so that you fell less overwhelmed by it. But I get really stuck with doing this.
Do you know what I am trying to describe?
Should I just make up a name. Is it not that important to give it a proper label.
Is tis what we all feel, just hard to describe.." Simply anxiety "
Phil
One of the tools you learn to help with your anxiety is to identify, label, and describe an emotion as it happens, in the moment.
I find this very difficult. I know that anxiety is very much connected to fear, but I get very confused over what emotion I am actually feeling.
The sensation that most upsets me the feeling of almost home sickness. It is a feeling in the pit of my stomach that I don't belong and that I need to leave, even if I am at home. It's a feeling that makes you feel vulnerable. When the feelings arises it removes all my confidence and makes me feel that I need to do something about it. Is it self consciousness,
Is this simply fear.?
It always feels that there is something more to it than simply fear, but maybe I am complicating things too much. There is also an urge to fall into despair and get tearful, so depression is also part of this. The feeling just takes me to a dark place. A place that I feel I need to get out of and that I need to resolve.
CBT simply suggests that it helps to identify, label and describe the emotion so that you fell less overwhelmed by it. But I get really stuck with doing this.
Do you know what I am trying to describe?
Should I just make up a name. Is it not that important to give it a proper label.
Is tis what we all feel, just hard to describe.." Simply anxiety "
Phil