A Compassionate Language Guide
Compiled by Telle Wild Rose
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Anxiety
- Nervousness
- Worrying a lot
- Overthinking
- Tense or on edge
- Jumpy
- Tight chest or racing heart
- Hard to relax
- Ruminating
- Feeling panicky
- Butterflies in stomach
- Feeling unsafe
Depression
- Heavy-hearted
- Feeling low
- Down in the dumps
- Sad a lot
- No motivation
- Emotionally numb
- Hopeless
- Crying often
- Drained
- Hard to get out of bed
- Tired all the time
- Empty inside
Trauma Responses
- Easily startled
- Shut down emotionally
- Flashbacks
- Can’t trust people
- Always on alert
- Avoids reminders
- Feels like it’s happening again
- Spacey or disconnected
- Feeling broken
- Stuck in survival mode
Anger & Irritability
- On a short fuse
- Snapping at people
- Feeling ragey
- Frustrated all the time
- Holding in too much
- Built-up stress
- Quick to explode
- Hard to calm down
Grief & Loss
- Heartache
- Missing someone deeply
- Numb with sorrow
- Waves of sadness
- Can’t stop thinking about them
- Overwhelmed by memories
- Tears come unexpectedly
Burnout & Exhaustion
- Running on empty
- Totally drained
- Can’t keep up
- Mentally fried
- Just surviving
- No energy left
- Tapped out
- Emotionally spent
Overstimulation & Sensory Overload
- Too much going on
- Can’t focus
- Sounds feel too loud
- Need quiet
- Everything feels too much
- Need to unplug
- Want to hide in silence
Mood Swings & Emotional Intensity
- Emotions all over the place
- Feeling everything too deeply
- Rollercoaster feelings
- Can’t explain why I’m crying
- Happy one moment, sad the next
- Up and down all day
Loneliness & Disconnection
- Feeling invisible
- Nobody gets me
- Alone even in a crowd
- Longing for connection
- Disconnected from others
- Feeling left out
- Unseen, unheard
Fear & Paranoia
- Can’t stop looking over my shoulder
- Feel like something bad is coming
- Hard to trust people
- Feel watched or judged
- Everything feels like a threat
Intrusive Thoughts or Voices
- Thoughts I don’t want
- Things pop into my head I didn’t ask for
- Voices in my head
- Feels like someone’s talking to me inside
- Unwanted mental noise
- Inner chatter I can’t shut off
Self-Esteem & Identity Struggles
- Don’t like myself
- Feel like I’m not enough
- Don’t know who I am anymore
- Ashamed of who I am
- Feel like a failure
- Hard to accept myself
Disconnection from Reality (Mild Dissociation)
- Floating feeling
- Watching myself from outside
- Everything feels unreal
- Zoned out
- Not fully here
- Spacey
- Dreamlike state
Obsessive or Repetitive Thinking
- Can’t stop checking
- Need things a certain way
- Stuck on one thought
- Looping thoughts
- Mind won’t let it go
- Do things over and over
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