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Jan 16, 2024 · Enter the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, the brainchild of writer John Koenig, who is here to give you words for the feelings you may not have even known you were having. Here are 40 words to describe your emotions.
Oct 12, 2020 · Feelings signal how we are reading the environment, and they are designed to mobilize and drive an adaptive behavioral response. Positive emotions (such as excitement, joy, attraction, pride,...
- The feeling hasn’t yet crystallized. In these instances, you’re just beginning to feel something but it hasn’t yet come into focus. It’s not yet identifiable.
- You’re experiencing more than a single feeling, and they’re oddly “fused.” Here you’re beset by more than one emotion at once, and it may feel confusing for you can’t separate or distinguish between them.
- It’s a feeling—or amalgam of feelings—that can’t be identified because the English language has no name for it. The “what’s-this-feeling?” phenomenon is somewhat new to the literature on emotions, but it’s become increasingly widespread.
- You’ve never had this feeling before. Children often can’t recognize what they’re feeling because they’ve not yet reached a level of development where they can transcribe their physical sensations into understandable feeling names.
Jun 17, 2021 · If it’s hard to identify a feeling, you could focus on sensations in your body first. Is there any tension or stress there? Sensations in the body can often be clues about our feelings,...
May 3, 2022 · When we’re taught from a very young age that our opinions, feelings, and perspectives are not valid, or we’re gaslit and lead to question our reality, it’s hard to accept, honor, and even sometimes feel our emotions as we get older.
Feb 20, 2023 · CNN: Why is it so hard for parents to see hard feelings, including sadness and anxiety, as part of a healthy adolescence?
Dec 21, 2022 · We all experience feelings that are extremely difficult to explain or put into words. This happens because we either lack the ability to express them or because there are no terms in our language to do so. Both realities are equally common. These feelings are called untranslatable emotions
