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Having alexithymia can make it hard for a person to express or identify their emotions. The condition can occur with certain conditions, such as depression, neurological conditions, and brain injury.

Alexithymia is when someone has difficulty experiencing, identifying, and expressing emotions. It is not a mental health disorder but has links with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating ...

Alexithymia is when a person has difficulty experiencing, identifying, and expressing emotions. It is not a mental health disorder but has links with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating ...

The word alexithymia is derived from Greek and is defined as the lack of words for emotions. The term was coined by Peter Sifneos in 1973 after conducting clinical observations on psychosomatic ...

It is widely accepted that autism is associated with disordered emotion processing and, in particular, with deficits of emotional reciprocity such as impaired emotion recognition and reduced empathy.

When you first enter therapy, it might be surprisingly difficult to answer the question, "How are you feeling?" Answering that question can be even more of a challenge if you deal with what is known ...

When most of us are stressed out we're able to intuitively name the emotion because of the way it makes us feel. But when Dr Krysia Waldock is struggling it can take a bit longer for the penny to drop ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Sometimes I work with children and adults who ...