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Talking About Feelings in English
Level: B1 · 5 minutes · All Learners
💡 Today’s Idea
English has a rich vocabulary for emotions — but many learners only know happy, sad, angry. Expanding your emotional vocabulary helps you communicate honestly and precisely.
📖 From My Experience
When I was diagnosed with bipolar I and complex PTSD in La Réunion, I realised I had been describing my internal experience with three words for forty years. English — and therapy — gave me more: overwhelmed, numb, agitated, melancholy, apprehensive, content, relieved, cautiously hopeful. These are not therapy jargon. They are precise descriptions of real states. The difference between sad and grief-stricken is not trivial — it is the difference between being seen and being summarised.
📚 Emotional Vocabulary: Beyond Basic
overwhelmed
too much to handle
too much to handle
relieved
glad a worry is gone
glad a worry is gone
apprehensive
anxious about what’s coming
anxious about what’s coming
content
peacefully satisfied
peacefully satisfied
melancholy
gentle sadness
gentle sadness
elated
extremely happy
extremely happy
numb
unable to feel
unable to feel
cautious
careful, not yet trusting
careful, not yet trusting
✏️ Try It! (2 minutes)
How are you feeling right now? Use at least two words from the list above to describe it.
Then: I feel ___ because ___.
🎯 Quick Quiz
If you feel ‘relieved’, you feel:
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