JlolSenior Contributor
How do you know what feelings you feel are legitimate and what feelings are symptoms of the illness?
And who can you believe? Can you trust yourself to know what feelings should be mitigated and which should be heeded?
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How do you know what feelings you feel are legitimate and what feelings are symptoms of the illness?
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hanamiSenior Contributor
Re: How do you know what feelings you feel are legitimate and what feelings are symptoms of the illness?
It's not much help @Jlol but I really like this question. I think it's super valid. Like I've heard people attribute some feelings/actions to their mental health concern but is that always the case?
Something to really think about.
Hanami
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Gillie1Senior Contributor
Re: How do you know what feelings you feel are legitimate and what feelings are symptoms of the illness?
I love this question it plays on my mind a lot. I often find myself asking am I allowed to feel this.
At the moment I would say that feelings are feelings. All of them are legitimate because all of them are felt. To deny how I feel really stuffs me up.
I therefore try and ask which feelings do I feed?
What is feeding them currently and are those situations and thoughts where I want to be?
Are they real or imagined?
Are they in persective?
And those questions get me really really confused lately.
But to get there and work these questions out I have to feel the feelings first. Validate them.
I don't think I'm helping you find clarity here I'm sorry. I struggle though to give myself permission to just feel.
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FloatingFeatherSenior Contributor
Re: How do you know what feelings you feel are legitimate and what feelings are symptoms of the illness?
Great question @Jlol! Unfortunately I don't have a great answer. I'm be curious to know what a psychologist / psychiatrist would say around this question?
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ClockFaceSenior Contributor
Re: How do you know what feelings you feel are legitimate and what feelings are symptoms of the illness?
@Jlol
I would say regardless of the feelings origin it is your feeling at the time.
How valid the feeling is depends. You can have a feeling out of symptom that is 100% valid.
Feelings and how valid they are not determined by how it originates. It just so happens that feelings as a result of symptoms should be scrutinised more, but we have dumb feelings free of symptoms too.
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