Do you ever feel things that you’re never able to tell anyone about, not that you don’t want to but because you can’t put those feelings into words? Well, you’re not the only one. We’re here today with 10 new words and phrases that’ll help expand your emotional literacy.
The false sensation of insects crawling all over your body.
That feeling of constantly thinking your phone is ringing or vibrating but it really isn’t.
That uncomfortable feeling you get in your stomach when you’re anxious.
The increasing urge to pee or poop the closer you get to a toilet.
You when someone holds a baby and goes, “Oh my God. He’s so cute. I could just eat him up!”? That’s what cute aggression is. The urge to squeeze, smoosh, or eat something you find ridiculously cute.
The psychological phenomenon of repeating a word over and over (in your mind or out loud) until it becomes meaningless.
The feeling of walking into a room and forgetting why you went in there.
Call of the Void is that thing that happens when you’re in a potentially dangerous situation and you suddenly get a weird mental prompt that pushes you to harm yourself. For example, you’re standing on the roof of a building or a bridge and you suddenly get the prompt to “JUMP!”.
The strange thing is that you don’t even have to be suicidal for this to happen.
This, in my opinion, is the best name for what you feel when you have goosebumps i.e waves of pleasure coursing over your skin. It’s an involuntary physical reaction that’s triggered by audio or visual stimuli.
A state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person. It usually includes obsessive thoughts, fantasies and a desire to form or maintain a relationship with the object of love and have one’s feelings reciprocated.
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