In my men’s group we have a sheet of paper from kindergarten with six emotions on it, accompanied by cartoon drawings:
- anger
- sadness
- shame
- fear
- happiness
- guilt
It’s been very useful to narrow the spectrum down to the basics, as a way of separating feelings from thoughts.
We often focus on identifying which thing we’re feeling, and also where in the body the feeling manifests.
It seems simplistic but it’s been valuable for me.
What do you mean by where in the body they manifest?
feelings have a location in space. Lots of mine are felt in:
- head
- chest
- stomach
What happens to your head, chest and stomach when you feel something?
not them but sometimes stuff really does give me a headache - like a really irritating or frustrating conversation. If I’m sad, I tend to feel it in my stomach more and causes me to lose my appetite.
It’s really hard to know how you’re feeling! Or at least it’s hard to name it, IMO. For the longest time I thought other people were making it up, like oh yeah sure I can totally also say I’m mad because of an earlier interaction and parallels with my upbringing. Pull the the other one why don’t you 🙄
I’m still confused and a little skeptical (I think there’s a healthy bit of narrativising going on) by how stable and knowable other people’s feelings are to them. Like how can you feel anger it sadness for more than a couple seconds? Don’t other people’s emotions flit about with their thoughts? Don’t other people get angry because they haven’t eaten?
Anyway pardon the dump. Emotions!
https://humansystems.co/wp-content/uploads/Emotion-Wheel-II-rev-1.2023-2.jpg
This may be an interesting resource, too
We used to use that one or something similar. We found it valuable to go even simpler.
Kind of like first learning to differentiate a lager from an ale, before trying to become the Crane brothers of beer.
That totally makes sense
When the time comes to study further, Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart is an incredibly useful and approachable resource. It is basically a glossary of common emotions, but they’re grouped by similarities and described with her charm and wisdom.
What’s the source for this? The few I checked didn’t come up in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. “Altschmerz” looks German, but doesn’t come up in my German dictionaries.
Altschmerz would mean something like old-pain if translated directly from German I think
Yeah, this always gets passed around without credit to the author. They’re not real words, but are poems and invented words by John Koeing (possibly other words mixed in).
I first came across most of these on his YouTube channel Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
There is also a blog and a book has also been released.
I found this which is about The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, where someone recently made to create terms about those feelings (they even have a YT channel).
A lot of them come from the dictionary of obscure sorrows.
So not anything that’s credible in educational circles
Dictionaries include words that are commonly used, so if a lot of people start using them, then they’ll be credible
True, this is a perfectly cromulent opinion.
Language is weird.
The study of language is descriptive, not prescriptive
It’s why dictionaries have new word of the year contests that get won by things like “goblin-mode”
Language evolves every day
I love chrysalism when I’m in an RV
Kenopsia would explain the feelings evoked by !liminalspace@lemmy.world
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I can recommend the Douglas Adams and John Lloyd book “The Meaning of Liff”. Its full of, made up, words that describe things that there isn’t a word for.
They’re not made-up words, they’re place names.
Is it a humorous book or some kind of self help philosophical book?
maaaaan who the fuck lives life like it’s NOT a choose your own adventure.
turn to page 57 if you’re interested in finding out.
turn to page 72 if you don’t care and would like to continue scrolling.
turns to page 57
What’s the name for the emotion evoked by jazz? I often wonder if that emotion even existed before jazz did.
Jazzy?
That’s up for you to define.
I get a very unique, distinctly palpable feeling when listening to chiptunes using classic SNES soundfont, but it would be hard to say if anyone feels the exact same way, or even similarly. It’s as clear in my mind as the colour red when I’m looking at it, but I couldn’t tell you much about it without using thousands of words to describe one little corner of it.
For jazz. For me: it’s like when you’re having an argument with someone you respect and you can feel yourself about to say something really clever, and you can tell it’s going to land with a great splash!
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My grandma called it the doodely-woodely music.
Anoscetia: the inability to truly know oneself.
That and the last one on that list are basically how I feel 24/7.
new emotions DLC just dropped
Fuckin rofl well done
words are useful if at least some people understand them, some of these are too obscure
That’s because they’re fake.
Most of these clearly have no proper etymology and root/suffix/prefix structure, and therefore are clearly made up.
Out of curiosity, I tried to look up the first two after reading your comment. I got no results, and didn’t keep trying.
They’re from a delightful blog (and now book) called the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’s a collection of neologisms with etymologies included, so yes they are made up but that’s the point
Every word is made up.
Yes, technically, just like “everything is subjective”. But only ignorant people remove all context like that.
also the sun is going to explode so
Kuebiko is literally a scarecrow.
A squarecrow
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Just like I said on an older, similar post
thalasin+ vibes.
dorcelessness but real.
BRB gonna get some nage real quick
Nodus Tollens is such a specific idea, yet I’d bet there’s almost nobody on this planet who hasn’t that sombre “what the fuck am I even doing with my life” moment at some point
One, what’s the basis for this? Looks made up.
Two, someone with depression must have written this. There’s not one cheerful emotion in there.
Three, some of them are not emotions.
Maybe I am too Monachopsis about this. Or this is Occhiolism on my part.
And the ones that are emotions are literally just another emotion and describing the cause of it.
“Frustration” isn’t enough, apparently. It has to be “frustration caused by this very very specific thing”
It is made up. Look up dictionary of Obscure Sorrows on YouTube
