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Why should you actually feel your emotions? - by Kasra

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a guide for the overthinker

Picture: your name is Bob and your therapist’s name is Alice. Every time you share something with Alice, she responds with, “I see. And how does that make you feel?” After a few rounds of this you begin to wonder whether this is the only sequence of words in Alice’s vocabulary or if you’ve accidentally ended up on an SNL sketch somehow. I will get as annoyed as anybody if my therapist’s only apparent trick in the book is to ask me how things make me feel (with a serious-looking expression on their face and an uncomfortably heavy emphasis on the “feel”) and my responses don’t go anywhere…

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