Dear Sesha:

You are welcome and thank you for expressing appreciation for my time and effort, it is very kind of you to do so. I understand that you choose to not see a mental health professional. I respect your right to make this choice, so I will not repeat my suggestion.

I am fine, thank you, tired today, unusually tired and it is only 4:50 pm where I am. I think that I will try to nap or just lie down and watch a YouTube video or two.

Post again anytime you want to, if you want, we can talk about emotion regulation or whatever else you choose to bring up. It just occurred to me to ask, the term you use, “suffocating feelings”, is it a translation from another language (I don’t think I heard these two words put together before I read it in your thread)? If you had to choose a more common term used in English to mean the same thing, what would it be?

anita