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According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them". The term feeling is closely related to, but not the same as, emotion. Feeling may, for instance, refer to the conscious subjective experience of emotions. The study of subjective experiences is called phenomenology. Psychotherapy generally involves a therapist helping a client understand, articulate, and learn to effectively regulate the client's own feelings, and ultimately to take resp

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A feeling is your inner subjective experience of something—a self-contained sense of how you perceive and evaluate what's happening around you, which can be independent from the specific sensations or thoughts that triggered it. Understanding and learning to manage your feelings matters because psychotherapy, a common mental health treatment, centers on helping people recognize, express, and effectively regulate their feelings so they can take responsibility for their own wellbeing.

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