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Why some emotions only exist in your second language

My therapist suggested I keep a journal in Spanish since it's my second language and now I can access emotions writing in Spanish that I literally cannot feel in English.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different languages activate distinct neural pathways to emotional experience, revealing the constructed nature of feeling itself.

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