DBT Describing Emotions - DISGUST

“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.  Another life is never safely envied.”  ― Robert Wells

DISGUST WORDS:

Disgust     Dislike     Repugnance     Sickened     Abhorrence     Derision     Repelled     Spite     Anitpathy   Disdain     Repulsion     Vile     Aversion     Distaste     Resentment     Condescension     Hate     Revolted     Contempt     Loathing     Scorn

Prompting Events for Feeling Disgust

• Seeing or smelling waste products of a human or animal body
• Having a person or an animal that is dirty or unclean come close to you
• Tasting something or being forced to incorporate or swallow something you really don't want.
• Being near, seeing or touching something that reviles you, e.g. "slimy" animals or crawling insects
• Seeing or being near a dead body.
• Touching items worn or owned by a stranger, dead person or disliked person
• Seeing blood or getting an injection or blood drawn
• Observing or hearing about a person who behaves without dignity or who strips another person of his or her dignity
• Observing or hearing about a person acting with extreme hypocricy, fawning.
• Observing or hearing about betrayal, child abuse, racism or other types of cruelty.
• Being forced to watch something the deeply violates your own "wise mind" values.
• Being confronted with someone who is deeply violating your own wise mind values.
• Being forced to engage in or watch unwanted sexual contact.

Interpretation of Events That Prompt Feelings of Disgust

• Believing that you are swallowing something toxic.
• Believing that your skin is contaminated.
• Believing that your own body or body parts are ugly.
• Believing that an object has negative or unwholesome sensory, (e.g. smell, feel, taste) characteristics
• Disapproving of or feeling morally superior to someone, disrespecting someone or their beliefs.
• Extreme disapproval of self or one's own feelings, thoughts or behaviours.
• Believing that a person is disrespecting authority or the ethical norms of the grup, or is disloyal to or not honouring of others in the community.
• Judging that a person is deeply immoral or has sinned and/or violated the natural order of things.
• Judging someone's body as extremely ugly
• Believing that by being around a person you will become contaminated, e.g. by "poisonous ideas".
• Believing others are evil or the "scum" of the earth.

Biological Changes and Experiences of Disgust

• Feelings of nausea
• Intense urge to get rid of something
• Sick feeling
• Wanting to destroy something
• Urge to vomit, or vomiting
• Urge to run away, or push away
• Gagging, choking
• Feeling contaminated, dirty, unclean
• Aversion to drinking or eating
• Feeling mentally polluted
• Urge to take a shower
• Fainting
• Having a lump in your throat

Expressions and Actions of Disgust

• Vomiting, spitting out
• Closing your eyes, looking away
• Washing, scrubbing, taking a bath
• Cleaning your body surface
• Changing your clothes
• Cleaning your apartment
• Avoiding eating or drinking
• Pushing or kicking away, running away
• Treating with disdain or disrespect, disregarding
• Going first, stepping over, crowding another person out
• Physically attacking the cause of your disgust.
• Using obscenities or cursing
• Clenching your hands or fists
• Frowning, or not smiling
• Mean or unpleasant facial expression
• Speaking with a sarcastic voice/tone
• Nose and top lip tightened up
• Lip curled on one side, smirking

Aftereffects of Disgust

• Narrowing of attention
• Closing down senses
• Feeling ugly
• Feeling dirty
• Becoming hypersensitive to dirt
• Ruminating about the situation making you feel disgusted and not being able to think of anything else
• Depersonalization, dissociation experience, numbness

Typical Secondary Emotions of Disgust

• Intense shame or fear