What is Your Emotional Awareness About Your Past?Identifying Unexpressed Emotion
To find out if you are having trouble letting go of the past, please answer yes or no to the following twenty questions:
Do you have painful childhood memories that you have yet to deal with?
Do you often feel upset, unbalanced, uncomfortable, or even cut off from your emotions?
Do you have a habit of ignoring or burying your most uncomfortable feelings?
Do you always show a happy face to the world, even when you are suffering inside?
Are there triggers that suddenly bring out your anger or cause you to be defensive?
Do you suffer from unexplained insomnia, headaches, stomach problems, and fatigue?
Are you afraid to feel your emotions?
Are you afraid to excavate old emotions because of the “Pandora’s Box” that will open up?
Do you feel that showing emotions is a sign of weakness?
Do you suffer from addictions or co-dependency issues?
Do you have deep bouts of depression
that cannot be explained?
Do you make excuses for the people or events that hurt you in the past?
Do you have resentments toward others for things they have done to you in the past?
Are you hypersensitive, rigid, irrational, and/or insecure?
Do you suspect that something traumatic happened to you in the past but cannot remember what it is?
Do you find it difficult to go with the flow of life?
Do you constantly stay busy so you won't have time to think about things that upset you?
Do you want to be happy but doubt that you ever can?
Were you abused as a child or young adult?
Do you wish you could change the past?
If you answered yes to five or more questions, it is highly likely that issues from the past are preventing you from living fully in the present.This test is for screening purposes only. It is not a formal diagnosis. Please see a qualified therapist or counselor to further evaluate and diagnose you.
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Randi Fine is a Narcissistic Personality Disorder abuse expert, Life Issues Counselor, radio show host and author living in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
As a Life Issues Counselor, Randi specializes in (but is not limited to) helping others work through issues relating to relationship codependency, narcissistic personality disorder abuse, emotional boundaries, letting go of the past, and letting go of unhealthy guilt.
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