Faux feeling Something done to me
Hassled
Not a feeling: a thought about what someone did.
‘I think you keep pestering me or hurrying me along.’
Why it’s not a feeling
To be hassled is to be pestered or hurried along by someone, so the word is really a report on their behaviour. Try ‘I think I’m being hassled’ and the sentence still makes sense, which marks it as a thought. What tends to sit underneath is irritation, or the crowded sense of being overwhelmed.
Feelings underneath
Needs
Saying it as a feeling
‘I feel hassled.’
When you stood beside my desk jingling your keys while I finished the email, I felt irritated, because I need peace and space.