i've been briefly experiencing some relatively new and unfamiliar positive emotional states and now i'm genuinely a little confused about what to call which ones. idk which ones are joy, calm, relaxation, happiness, safety, relief
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a lot of what i was thinking of as "happiness" i think was more a combination of relief (from depression and anxiety and body tension) and excitement. which are all different i guess!
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sometimes i get this feeling of like... warmth spreading through my body? but like it's low-energy? is that happiness or calm or joy or safety???
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i had an experience kinda like this trying to distinguish between different forms of attraction when i realized i hadn’t been distinguishing between, like, intense attachment feelings vs. sexual attraction, e.g.
so many different feelings!
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Congrats on this shift!
I imagine it'd be like seeing more colors or hearing a more complete range of sounds for the first time ...
Finding a sympathetic IRL person who is comfortable in their own experience of the new-to-you sensations might be a good way to real-time-sort them?
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