Help How do you actually talk about your issues? Any tips?

[d-tea]

Hi, reposting this in the recovery forum because I initially didn't; I hope that's okay and won't have to be removed...


I've always struggled with expressing my feelings and not feeling ridiculous because I am aware that often times, they do not make sense.
Talking about it makes me cringe and I can't seem to get a word out; no matter how close to a person I am. I can't imagine how I'd bring it up with a professional.

I've managed to write down things in the moment, but I struggle with accessing and describing those feelings afterwards, I just can't seem to remember what was going on in my head. Additionally, I have somewhat learned to express myself in English, but struggle with doing so and being emotionally vulnerable while speaking my native language.

I've talked to a psychiatrist before but have only been able to explain my life circumstances (which are not bad at all) and physical symptoms like self harm, and they gained the impression that I was actually pretty stable when I was absolutely not, causing me to never go back after my first session because I tried to ctb shortly after.

How do you deal with this?

 

[FoxSauce]

Well I don't cope very well with them so I try using examples or analogies?

But i keep them mostly since I really don't understand them

 

[Holu]

I just meow at my cat until I feel slightly better. Not sure if that counts but it's something