These are your icebergs. And, in order to understand this, you need to visualize the TITANIC coasting along without a care in the world until it hits the iceberg. But has it really hit the iceberg? No, it has not. What it hit was the TIP of the Iceberg -- the exposed part that is visible above the surface of the water. Everyone learns in grade school that, in the dark below, there is actually a ginormous mass of ice that isn't visible to the naked eye. Our first grouping of patients is like this. They present themselves as "okay" and "fine" because they haven't learned to communicate what is going on below the surface with their feelings. And this is where the treatment center professional's real work begins, because they have to help the patient identify the feelings they're experiencing and then teach them how to verbalize them (because the only thing feelings need you to do is express them).
The Emotional Iceberg | Psychology Today
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