It's funny how "metaphors" for emotions are actually just the normal physical signs of that emotional response. Rage really is hot. You really do get cold feet when you're experiencing a strong stress response to doing something. Your heart is where you experience many emotions.
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every time my therapist attempts to ask me where i feel an emotion in the body i look at her all perplexed. she stopped after a while
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That's a shame. Therapists should really be able to teach people to do this rather than just assume they can, because it's actually a hard skill and then we spend most of our lives making it harder.

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Me too! I literally did not know emotions were more than just words until a psychiatrist in high school informed me
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any of you guys try to consult your physical state as evidence for how you're feeling? i do this, but I find most people claim to have more direct access to their emotional states than I seem to
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Yes paying attention to physical state is an integral part of figuring out how I'm feeling
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We come to the antipode? I remember reading somewhere about how ancient literature doesn’t contain emotions per se, but descriptions of their symptoms that are interpreted as idiomatic by modern scholars. So they may only have noticed symptoms and not emotions.
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I want to say it was from a thirdhand description of the arguments in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. But it’s really fuzzy and I dunno.
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