Alexithymia sucks. This chart helps!
How are you feeling? You don’t know? Me neither! So I look at this chart several times a day (got reminders set on my phone) to check in on how I’m feeling throughout the day. I’ve been doing it for a few months, and it’s actually getting a lot easier to identify how I’m feeling.
Pro tip: some people have to rely more on how their body feels to tell them what they’re feeling emotionally. Work on trying to identify how certain emotions feel in your body. Work in broad strokes at first, before working on identifying more specific emotions. For example, try to notice how sad, happy, angry, and afraid feel. Where in your body do you feel them? What physical sensations go along with the emotions? It’s different for everyone!
The more often you practice, the better you’ll get at it. This is all straight from my therapist and it’s how I’m finally feeling my feelings after years of dissociation.
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[Late 2023 icon update!]
[I couldn't stand looking at the other one anymore, now that I've found some style consistency. Time for a streamlined look!]
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ohhh my god you're trapped in a role deriving never ending guilt and misery out of you that you've found no way out of? should we throw a party? should we invite toby fox
[anniversary art for part 2 !! ron staedtler you will always be famous to me]
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hey is this how the joke works?
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Adapted from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
What is a need? (Adapted from this article)
It’s important to be connected to our needs because true needs are always in our best long term interest. Our needs for air, food, water, shelter, community, companionship, autonomy, respect, etc. are all in our best long term interest to fulfill.
Wants, on the other hand, don’t necessarily correlate with long term well-being. In fact, many wants, when fulfilled, actually contribute to our long term detriment.
Put another way: needs refer to the conditions that must be met in order for us to live a balanced life; whereas wants are strategies we use to fulfill our needs. This is why needs inherently map to long term well-being, while wants don’t have such a correlation. Wants can either contribute to our long-term wellbeing, or they contribute to our long-term detriment. In order for our wants to be good for us in the long-term, we must understand which needs they map back to.
Ideally, we should be connected to our needs first, and our wants second. When we become disconnected from our needs due to past trauma, we rely too heavily on our wants to guide our decision making. The disconnection from our needs increases the likelihood that we will attach to wants that lead to our long-term detriment.
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deltarune as posts i’ve seen around tumblr PART THREE
part one
part two
part three you are here
part four
part five
part six
part seven
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Sorry for posting more scc, it will happen again.
also I've been waaay too obsessed with Cyber Battle with lyrics... Video to that and a textless version under cut!
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