Finding it really hard to identify my feelings.

[Guest]

Im not sure if i have put this in the right forum but i hope it is. I am finding it really hard to identify my feelings at the moment. I dont really fully understand them. I dont really know how to describe it. Yesterday i got really upset and cried for over two hours solidly and i dont really know what happened to make me feel so upset. When im upset or hurting i can never find the right words to describe it or even any words. I frustrate and annoy the people i try and talk to about whats wrong because often i just sit there in silence, i try and talk but cant. I dont know if im making any sense, sorry. Im not sure what im really asking from this post i was just wondering if anybody knows of any advice they can give me to help me be able to talk more and identify what im feeling or anything really. Thank you to anyone that has read this.

[mallie]

There was a great post in sourcebook on not being able to name your feelings. Worth having a look at if you haven't yet.

It is pretty distressing to not be able to work out what's wrong. Are you ever able to work it out later on? Sometimes it can be possible to figure out looking back, even when its a mystery at the time.

[bonita_05]

it is really frustrating not being able to name what you are feeling... i do some of the same things... just know that you aren't alone

[BrokenGurl]

It is tough; I know what its like not able to understand the way you are feeling. Sometimes I find it helpful to try to write down the way i'm feeling at that moment.It seems to help you understand a bit more. I'm not sure if this will help but give it a try.

[unholyconfessions]

i go thru the same thing alot. I will just sit in my room trying to understand whats wrong w/ me that i feel so low, or trying to figure out why i am even crying to begin w/. For the longest time i thought that i was the only one that felt that way. I would try to explain how i felt to my one friend but she never fully understood or knew what to say to me. Nothing ever seemed right. Then i just started to write. I have a couple poems now and they all seem psycotic(cant spell). My mom went nuts and now i am diagnosed to being bipolar type 1. But just know that your not the only one out there. Maybe if you sat and listend to music it might put some words into how you feel. I mainly listen to metal. It has the rage and frustration of how i feel alot of the time.