Do you find it hard explaining emotions?

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I send emails to my mum about things and get butterflies from the moment I send it, knowing she'll try to talk to me about it. I also dread psychologist appointments and hate crying in front of people unless I'm injured, do you feel like this too?

I find it extremely difficult.

Recently, my emotional expressions and explanations lead to a disasturous situation.

Some how I always manage to screw up talking about them.

I find emotions difficult to talk about.

My current therapist seems to be good at identifying ways to talk about emotions that I can answer, at least after her initial question just confuses me.

I have a therapist who tries to get me to 'personify' emotions and treat them like seperate real people. I have immense difficulty with this...

I don't really like talking about my emotions. It's just so uncomfortable. But thanks to my therapist, I've found it easier over the years to identify those feelings and learn how to cope with them. Keeping things in for too long can cause meltdowns.

I think I would be able to describe my emotions if asked (probably in the most minute detail!), but wouldn't feel comfortable talking about my emotional state to someone I didn't know extremely well.

I would only be comfortable talking about my emotions to my debugger and/or family.
Other than that, I can describe my basic emotions (happy, sad, jealous, etc), but when they are more complex, I am sometimes inable to find a fitting word for it, so I would have to explain what I feel and such an explanation can take a while and contains lot's of "do you know that feeling when...".
Now, is that hard? I guess when I can't find a word for my current emotion, yes.

But at least I can explain them.

Absolutely, It is very difficult to me.

I have a lot of issues talking about my emotional life. I can often identify my emotions, and I can sometimes identify the cause, but not (usually) in a very conversational manner.

I'm kind of too expressive when it comes to describing my emotions but I have quite a large lexicon, plus I'm arty and creative. I sometimes think that expressing the way I do now is worse than when I was painfully shy and quiet when i was younger. Now I'm more likely to hurt other people's feelings now or be more embarrassing.

Apparently I do because of what my shrink told me in high school and what he tried getting me to do. Apparently crying and screaming and yelling isn't explaining your emotions or saying "This pisses me off" "It's so annoying." "That's stupid." He would tell me those were just thoughts. He would try and get me to talk about my feelings and it was never good enough when I did. Even my husband has told me he thinks I have a hard time with them. I would think that me saying "This is so exciting" be explaining them or saying something makes me so happy or that it felt like I was dreaming when it happened.

But I mostly feel I do fine with it.

I have always thought that I don´t (find it hard), but I recently realised that I have problems with understanding some of them. I lied to myself and did not even know about it. How´s that possible?

I find it tough to explain to people that emotions are a liability, and should be at the very least strictly controlled wherever possible.
But then the inherent irresponsibility of most folk ensures that they have no interest in making their own choices.

Yes. It can be hard for me to articulate emotions, and I get nervous and shaky when I talk about them.

Yes especially happiness. It seems foreign to me.

I find it hard to talk about them sometimes.