Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.
Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.
Not quite… alexithymia is being unable to put words to feelings. It’s in the word… a- is not, lex- is words, thymia is feeling. Lacking words for emotions is not the same as not feeling the emotions.
Alexithymia is a common experience, but especially common when other communication barriers exist.
That may be the etymology of the word, but the article describes it differentlly:
Gotcha. I was quoting the article
That’s affective alexithymia you’re describing, but it’s not the only mind. Cognitive alexithymia is closer to what this person was describing. A lot of the time it’s not necessarily just one or the other, it can be different degrees of both