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Whereabouts in your body do you feel emotion?


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...and do you think that is as weird a question as I do??

My therapist set me some 'homework' where she wants me to sit down each day and think about what I am feeling and whereabouts on my body I'm feeling it. She also wants me to do this thing where I tap myself on different parts of my body in order to release emotions and energy. This was my second session with her and it's getting a bit too weird and hippy-dippy for me. I would change therapists, but after contacting 12 different therapists she was the only one who agreed to work with me and I don't think there are any more in my area. I might just give up the whole therapy idea.

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Whereabouts in your body do you feel emotion?

i don't think it's a weird question. what do you mean she was the only one who agreed to work with you? i would honestly recommend (unless you're being forced to undertake therapy) telling her that you don't feel this 'tapping' bs is for you. it opens up a more honest dialogue which is kinda important if you want therapy to work.

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Whereabouts in your body do you feel emotion?

Chest... The emotions can spread from there to different parts of my body. 

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Whereabouts in your body do you feel emotion?

Feel them in your body? Idk  about that...

Mine makes me write down what I'm feeling and why but not about where in my body. That sounds weird.

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Tbh I think I've pretty much made the decision that I'm not that arsed abt therapy anymore. I've got more important things to spend money on now and many other changes I wanna make to my life. I was excited abt the idea of therapy at first but now I can't remember why I ever thought it would be useful.

literally just as I was writing this, she texted saying she wants to cancel our appointment, and didn't offer to rearrange XD

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I think taping yourself sounds weird lol.. 

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she sounds kinda like a loopy bitch tbh. is she scared of you or something?

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Yes, a very strange question.  It's a full body thing.

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That's not a weird question on a forum for people with a PD that is characterized by a lack of a startle effect and flattened emotional responses.

I've seen it on other AsPD forums and psychology sites.

 

Your therapist's ideas about how to 'cure' you  are  pretty weird, tho.

I don't think it works that way. Touching certain places on your body won't make you more emotional.

 

btw, I feel emotion between my bellybutton and my throat, (depending on which emotion it is) toward the front of my body. Love with sexual craving happens a little lower. The stuff that happens inside and to the back of my midsection is all physical.

 

And wtf is the deal with the eyebrows?  lol  Besides light sensitivity and responses to direct physical stimulus, I don't feel anything in my eyebrows.

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Whereabouts in your body do you feel emotion?

TheFool 0 stated: source post

Not weird, sounds like a useful exercise in self-awareness.

I feel emotions in my mind, and sensations thereafter in my body :)

Do you not know how you feel yours?

no, I can't say I've ever felt emotions as a physical sensation. I mean, I've felt kinda like butterflies in my stomach as a feeling of excitement, but this woman was taking about feeling pleasantly ok in your eyebrows and I really didn't get wtf she was on about  

Sugar stated: source post

she sounds kinda like a loopy bitch tbh. is she scared of you or something?

lol idk about that... I think maybe she's inexperienced. I contacted a few different therapists before this one and they said I should be working with a psychologist or a psychiatrist. Perhaps I should, but I'm handling my life in my own way and I feel good about it. 

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