#alexithymia

[autiebiographical]

My emotions are so confusing to me. Feeling completely neutral emotions, and yet still wanting to cry, makes no sense to me.

[renolunio]

alexithymia cat

[babyblankyerror]

Alexithymia 2.0

[scramratz]

Got the kind of autism that makes me hard to love

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Ways Difficulty Identitying and Describing Emotions (Alexithymia) Shows Up

Neurodivergent Lou

[self-care-club]

Alexithymia sucks. This chart helps!

How are you feeling? You don’t know? Me neither! So I look at this chart several times a day (got reminders set on my phone) to check in on how I’m feeling throughout the day. I’ve been doing it for a few months, and it’s actually getting a lot easier to identify how I’m feeling.

Pro tip: some people have to rely more on how their body feels to tell them what they’re feeling emotionally. Work on trying to identify how certain emotions feel in your body. Work in broad strokes at first, before working on identifying more specific emotions. For example, try to notice how sad, happy, angry, and afraid feel. Where in your body do you feel them? What physical sensations go along with the emotions? It’s different for everyone!

The more often you practice, the better you’ll get at it. This is all straight from my therapist and it’s how I’m finally feeling my feelings after years of dissociation.

[alexeven-art]

Therapy

[pride-stars]

Alexithymia : An experience in which a person is consistently unable to put words to their feelings, resulting in difficulty in every day activities. These people may be unaware of the physical bodily reactions emotions have, or just simply be unable to explain why they are currently upset. Another common factor of people with this condition is that they often come off as indecisive, since they can’t always pinpoint their feelings. Alexithymiacs also struggle not just in describing emotions, but also feeling and expressing. Sometimes having crying spells without understanding they were sad, or feeling “numb” or “detached” when the emotion they’re feeling is simply hard to grasp.