As an intellectual person it kind of offends me that emotions are so physical. Like, why am I too anxious to do this task? Oh right, because when I get that anxious, my body is either in too much pain to function, or literally kicks my ability to do it out from under me. How do I fix it? Fucking calm my body down.
It is OFFENSIVE that I can’t just think my way out of a feeling.
Honestly this post explains why the one time I tried an exclusively CBT therapist I spent all of our sessions arguing with him about how he was wrong.
Because otherwise I was wrong and HE WASN’T EVEN NICE ABOUT IT.
Huh, can you say some more about that? It sounds like it might sow some really helpful revelations for me since I feel the same way about emotions being physiological, but I’m not sure I’m understanding it correctly.





