SDAM and Emotional Self-Awareness
Hey everybody, I have SDAM and one thing I've been struggling with a lot lately is feeling like I can't understand my emotions beyond very broad strokes like "stressed" or "calm" because I have no ability to compare myself to past emotional states. I think it gets especially difficult because I usually can't remember when or why I exactly started feeling a certain way unless I really make note of it in the moment. It's almost like I don't have emotional object permanence.
For what it's worth, I also (probably) have autism and have pretty bad anxiety, which definitely could be a factor that makes it hard to properly parse my emotions. However just from an SDAM perspective, I was wondering if any of you relate to the feeling I've described, and if any of you have figured out ways to understand your emotions without needing to compare to another state of mind/past emotional state.