sankalp-indish/alexithymia-adhd-predictor
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Alexithymia | I hate having alexithymia | I hate not feeling like one is “supposed” to. I hate it even more because I know I used to be able to feel just like everyone else. I’m literally going to Disneyland tomorrow because it’s my birthday and I can’t feel one single emotion. I hate having to act happy when something happens to not come off as ungrateful and... | 2025-06-20T07:33:10 | 1lfxyuo | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Think I have alexithymia - so what next? | Sorry for the long post. I'm hoping that by writing this out, it helps me understand a few things.
I've never been able to articulate my emotions and thought I would Google to see what came up. Was amazed to find out I wasn't the only one! Had never heard of alexithymia before but really feels like the penny has drop... | 2025-06-19T23:07:58 | 1lfotxd | 1 | 1 |
Alexithymia | Scored high on all alexithymia tests | i took the paq-s, tas-20, and qaq tests and scored high on all of them.
paq-s: 42/42
tas-20: 94/100
qaq: 179/185
Anyone on the same boat? Kinda of weird to see the results and not feel much about them. | 2025-06-20T03:34:23 | 1lfu2zs | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Is it possible to be HSP and have alexithymia? Also how do you find a therapist? | Sorry this is more of a vent than a question.
I’ve always known that I am not the best at expressing my feelings, but it has recently come to my attention that I am very much detached from emotions entirely, especially the negative ones. I hate the question “how are you?” because I never know how I am other than a vag... | 2025-06-19T12:24:20 | 1lf9haz | 1 | 1 |
Alexithymia | Alexithymia and GI Issues | Hello! I'm wondering if anyone has any pearls of knowledge on the prevalence of alexithymia + GI issues (nausea, diarrhea, etc). It see these two things occur together frequently. Have you found anything that has helped with GI issues? Anyone have hypothesis on the link between the two? | 2025-06-19T04:05:53 | 1lf1fah | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | What are indicators that your stressed? | I can’t tell if i just have a stomach ache or if im actually stressed
Edit: sorry if I was being unclear. I more wanted to ask what physical symptoms your body showed, which showed you were stressed. Eg sometimes I zone out, feel low energy and tears fall from my eyes which is a clear indicator to me I’m sad. I was wo... | 2025-06-17T08:01:27 | 1ldhfhb | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Have any of you found success in psychotherapy? | I am never able to talk about myself when I'm in therapy, and i can never talk about stuff emotionally. It doesn't help that 99 percent of the time I feel like i am completely fine, even though im not, so usually when i am in therapy i always end up feeling like "i don't really need this im fine!"
Ive resorted to just... | 2025-06-17T13:34:38 | 1ldna88 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Survey - language & disability | Hi, everyone! I’m currently working on an academic research project concerning disability, language around it being a major aspect. I’d appreciate if you could take out the time to fill out this short survey.
I’m aware alexithymia isn’t a disability on its own, but a lot of people experiencing it are diagnosed with au... | 2025-06-16T19:05:46 | 1ld1ms1 | 1 | 1 |
Alexithymia | How do I know? | I've been doing a lot of research recently and Alexithymia is something that's come on my radar a lot. There are some times when I really connect with it and there are times where I'm really not sure. My biggest struggle with determining if I have it is that I don't know what it feels like to have it, or what it feels ... | 2025-06-13T18:11:47 | 1lamxoi | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Maybe You'll Never Be Happy -- by Dr. Devon Price | I have to focus on work soon, but I wanted to share this response (second half) toward somebody asking about inability to feel pleasure or desire. This is something I struggle with frequently and is actually feel a great deal of shame around... so I appreciate how thoughtful and insightful this response is!
[https://... | 2025-06-12T14:23:15 | 1l9nrs1 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Anything I can do? | So I've only just recently found out alexithymia was a thing and it explains a lot but I can't figure out if knowing actually helps me in any way.
I think it's really negatively impacted my life, I dont have very many hobbies cause I always get confused if im enjoying them or not, I've never had anything even close to... | 2025-06-12T13:05:00 | 1l9lywe | 1 | 1 |
Alexithymia | Rather confused. | So, basically what we s going on is that I've got many problems but do not know what emotions I am feeling. This has led to a reflection of my entire life and I réalisé now that I've never really had feeling.
I've never had a close friend or a secret love interest. Not have I ever felt attached emotionally to anyone o... | 2025-06-11T03:25:43 | 1l8iiwg | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | How do I know if it’s toxic masculinity or alexithemyia? and some of his behaviors seem too familiar. It’s ver y triggering | My partner claims he cannot put feelings into words. But he can get sarcasm and seems to judge others on the regular..is he just an ahole who’s gaslighting me? My ex of 20 years was a narcissist and some of his behaviors seem too familiar. It’s ver and I tell him; he shuts down when I do and I end up feeling like the A... | 2025-06-11T01:39:16 | 1l8ggfx | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Can Alexithymia be "cured" | Sorry if the question sounds stupid. And also sorry for the incoming vent.
For context: I'm not on meds. Not on drugs. Not on anything. I was very depressed for a long time and things have just gotten... bland. I don't feel anything anymore and it is driving me crazy. It's messing with my memory and I actually really ... | 2025-06-10T19:36:54 | 1l884hv | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I feel like a monster again. | My grandmother is in the hospital. The doctors said the surgery might not go well. She's in pain, and honestly… part of me thinks it might be better for her to go peacefully than keep suffering like this.
The thing is, I grew up with her. She helped raise me. But right now, I feel nothing. Just silence. It was the sam... | 2025-06-10T10:21:29 | 1l7v5ie | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Research - Can Journaling Improve Emotional Awareness in Individuals with Alexithymia? | Dear r/Alexithymia Community,
I hope this message finds you well. My name is Dr. Jardin, and I am a researcher studying alexithymia. I am reaching out to invite you to participate in a 1-week study examining the potential benefits of journaling for individuals with alexithymia.
**About the Study:**
This study aims ... | 2025-06-10T15:04:14 | 1l81253 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Are we more likely to get into abusive relationships? | I’m an autistic alexithymic with a disorganised attachment (what a wonderful title) and I often find myself chasing the high of people who display an interest in me but ultimately breadcrumb me and bring out my anxious side, as it triggers some of the highest emotional responses I’m capable of feeling. Because they ma... | 2025-06-09T22:25:38 | 1l7igq5 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I don’t have preferences | I’ve been thinking recently about this thing for awhile..do i really have preferences? A weird fact about me is that i don’t have a favorite color. I don’t even have a clear idea of what i wanna be in the future. Does anyone else think/feel the same? And please do tell if you know how to solve this issue or what you th... | 2025-06-09T22:56:07 | 1l7j5so | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Forcing a happy appearance | My friend said something to me recently that made me realize I force myself to appear happy so people don’t really realize I can’t tell what I’m feeling most of the time. I always make it seem like I am feeling very happy all the time and try to be positive. Yet most of the time I have 0 idea what I’m feeling or essent... | 2025-06-09T12:37:12 | 1l73ocr | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Is this substaintial? | Like when people ask how are you feeling or something similar can they actually feel something?
I can very much recognise immense guilt, sadness or happiness or joy in myself. But that's a rare occasion.If you ask me what I'm feeling now I would say nothing.
Whenever someone has asked me how I am feeling I have a... | 2025-06-09T10:03:38 | 1l70w41 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Is this considered alexithymia or is it another thing? | So I feel emotions like happiness, sadness, anger, but I don't know why I feel certain ways, some times I don't really feel anything. For example if I feel sad I don't know why, only if there is an obvious cause, I sometimes even tie it to the wrong causes. For example I may be feeling sad or anxious, but I may not kno... | 2025-06-08T18:07:26 | 1l6io3y | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Alexithymia connected to sensory issues | I found this publication super interesting, showing that sensory issues (and possibly other conditions) are genetically connected to alexithymia rather than the autism.
When I stumbled upon the alexithymia condition, I was able to lift quite some bit of my "what is wrong with me" thoughts. I also suffer from sensory d... | 2025-06-07T20:23:54 | 1l5u9ry | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Trouble with empathy | Having alexithymia makes it really hard for me to understand what I’m feeling, and because of that, I struggle a lot with empathy too. Sometimes I see that someone is upset or going through something, and I know I *should* feel something in response—but I don’t always feel it the way I think I’m supposed to. That makes... | 2025-06-07T22:17:34 | 1l5wr7y | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | “I wish I had that too.” Why do people say this when I tell them I have alexithymia? | Every time I try to be honest with someone about having alexithymia, they respond with something like, “That sounds nice” or “I wish I had that too.” As if not feeling your emotions clearly is some kind of superpower.
I get it—maybe they’re overwhelmed with what they feel, and they imagine not having emotions would ma... | 2025-06-07T10:50:58 | 1l5i19i | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I am so happy I have found this place and this "condition" | I am 45 and had no idea this condition existed.
I have spent my whole life wondering why I don't feel things like other people. I look at emotional moments like going to the zoo or something, making observations about how people act and react. And I think to myself, "why don't I act or react like they do"?
I have th... | 2025-06-06T11:47:24 | 1l4qdid | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I can’t connect to my own sadness, and it’s starting to scare me | I’m trying to understand myself better, and I could really use some insight or advice from people who’ve been through something similar.
I’ve noticed something strange about myself: I can get excited. I can feel happy, even thrilled, when something good happens. But when it comes to sadness or pain, loss, disappointme... | 2025-06-05T15:53:12 | 1l42pyq | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Next steps | I just took the TAS-20 and got a 66 meaning I likely have alexithymia. The one problem is that I'm 13 and everything I found online said its recommended for 16+, is it worth it to pursue next steps or is it likely a fluke? | 2025-06-05T16:57:59 | 1l44cwo | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | is this alexithymia? or just not fully understanding emotions | as a human being i am susceptible to emotions, obviously i can cry, i can laugh or i can get angry or frustrated. but i don't exactly recognise anything "internally". i might act pissed but inside the most i can "feel" is "frustrated" which is well, mostly based on my thoughts.
if i cry, it just comes to me even when ... | 2025-06-04T05:48:30 | 1l2xwxg | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Starving | I’ve been married to a man for 24 years who recently (in the last 2 years) was diagnosed with ASD and alexithymia. He sexually discarded me a few years into our marriage. I’ve stayed. My children are just about out on their own.
I’m literally starving for a form of emotional and physical intimacy I can feel and unders... | 2025-06-03T01:47:56 | 1l1zwtu | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Feeling strongly for the first time in a while, don’t like it | Had a breakup after 4 years of being together. Cut my hair really badly. Behind by 2 weeks on multiple university assignments. Reality of all 3 is setting in at once on a random Monday morning and I really want it to go away now | 2025-06-02T10:32:50 | 1l1em3b | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Social media break benefited me | Okay so I tried and failed to do a week long social media and general phone break but I lasted long enough to notice benefits. I was able to be present more and notice and accepted my anger and was able to understand why and stay with uncomfortable emotions, I had more mental clarity in that short period that i realize... | 2025-06-02T02:34:25 | 1l16wes | 0 | 1 |
Alexithymia | Used to be the life of the room, now I feel numb and disconnected | Went out with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while. Good people — I actually like being around them. But for some reason, it felt like a part of my drive was switched off. I was so damn silent, emotionally dull, had little to nothing to say. My brain wasn’t interested in engaging or connecting, I was just… there. Stra... | 2025-06-01T09:24:59 | 1l0kt8t | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Why do I feel embarrassed to tell people I'm doing dance as a hobby? | Idk which sub to post this to 😭 Why do I feel embarrassed to tell people I'm doing dance as a hobby? I think I feel shame. I feel like keeping it a secret. Why would I feel this way about salsa dance classes? I'm confused. | 2025-06-01T11:24:05 | 1l0mmoz | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | self exploration is tough (long and rambling) | I’ve been trying to find the boxes I can best fit my sense of self into. Something about lining up my experiences with scientific literature makes me feel seen, maybe like there's a way out. Alexithymia came across my path this time and it seems like there’s a lot of overlap
I don’t feel a wide range of emotions. The... | 2025-05-31T19:56:46 | 1l0611x | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I cannot feel love, I only “know” someone loves me | I was doing Google searching at 4:30 in the morning asking about this and found this sub.
I had a conversation yesterday about “love” with my mom and she asked me “do we love you” and sure, I know the answer is a yes. They have put up with me more than I would like to acknowledge, but do I \*feel* their love? No. And ... | 2025-05-29T11:35:27 | 1ky8im4 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Not sure.... | I'm kind of just looking for direction and wondering if anyone might have a similar experience and can direct me in a helpful direction or if this is under the umbrella of alexithymia and I'm just not recognizing it.
My dilemma here is that I can understand/sense that I'm having an emotion, but except for some extreme... | 2025-05-30T00:16:28 | 1kyqhdi | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I did a writing exercise on emotion today. It was very difficult | After my creative writing class, our teacher said to go home and choose a random thing we saw, and then describe with different emotion. I saw a little creek on my way home and decided to write about that. I tried and tried, but I couldn't recognize any different emotion in the description of the creek, no matter how h... | 2025-05-29T14:01:26 | 1kybk76 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Everyone thinks I’m happy | I don’t know what I feel and when people ask how I am I say good - I smile and laugh and seem like I’m good but then I’ll blow up and cry and I don’t know why nothing has triggered it I just am crying. Do other people feel like this? I feel like I’m gaslighting myself and everyone else that I’m fine and then they are g... | 2025-05-26T03:07:25 | 1kvk4wa | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I feel like other people understand what I'm feeling better than I do | Like the title says, sometimes other people comment on my actions by saying that I was seemed angry, upset, or overwhelmed, but I didn't feel those things at all, I just felt neutral. I don't know how they can understand my emotions when I can barely figure out if I'm sad when I'm actively crying.
| 2025-05-24T21:43:57 | 1kumnjm | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | “I struggle to feel or recall emotions — I’m trying to understand if I’m emotionally blocked or just broken.” |
Hi everyone,
Its my first time ever posting on reddit. Forgive me if i do something wrong.
I’m 18/m, and for the past few months, I’ve been trying to understand why I can’t feel my emotions fully — or even recognize them sometimes. I recently went through a breakup after a year-long relationship with a really kind, g... | 2025-05-24T23:49:31 | 1kup74k | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Job Suggestion | Hi, does anyone know how to find a suggestion for a Job I mean in Terms of Joy. How do I know wheter that Job will make me Happy when I dont Feel it? | 2025-05-22T13:04:03 | 1ksq634 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Devices? HRV? | Are there devices that could monitor and report on our emotional states better than we can?
For example, I've read that measuring Heart Rate Variability (HRV) can give an indicator of your stress levels, whether you're in fight/flight, etc. Has anyone experimented with using tech to get data on what makes things bett... | 2025-05-22T07:32:42 | 1kskujt | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Follow-up: looking for more responders on Alexithymia Question Sheets | Hi everyone,
This is a follow-up to my earlier post a few weeks ago. I’m looking for responses to 2 different question sheets about alexithymia. These are not formal surveys, just open-ended sheets meant to gather different perspectives. You can choose the one that best fits your situation:
**For people who experienc... | 2025-05-20T07:45:17 | 1kqz6wb | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | How to tell whether my mood is positive or negative? | My therapist always asks me whether my general mood over the week was positive or negative and I never have any idea what to respond. So I just say "slightly positive" because that sounds like the best option. And like I'm not making it sound worse than it is.
I'm not sure whether this is just an alexithymia thing, or ... | 2025-05-17T16:47:47 | 1koxgqf | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I just discovered what Alexithymia is and think it fits me perfectly, can someone with personal experience give me some advice or tell me if I might have it? | I was literally just scrolling on insta and came across a post about Autism and Alexithymia. I went ahead and looked it up cause I’m well aware I have autism already but I have never seen something explain what I’m feeling to a fucking T and I actually almost lost it. I didn’t know this was a thing, I thought I was cra... | 2025-05-17T11:03:23 | 1koqcid | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I am pretty sure i’ve got Alexithymia, What do you guys think? | Hi!
So I’ll just try to get straight to the point.
I feel from i’ve been able to gather, 5 to 6 emotions, and i am unsure about 2 or 3 of those. But i am really good at knowing what emotion i should be feeling, and often react accordingly on instinct. But my biggest issue is kinda the opposite of what most people str... | 2025-05-16T18:24:26 | 1ko81cr | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Do I sound like I have alexithymia? | I want to try to say this all in one go but I don't think I can honestly. My entire life, I have been confused about why I experienced the world differently. Even recently I developed language about saying that I simply feel emotioned physically not mentally. I think that is true, I can only feel emotion's physically. ... | 2025-05-15T23:54:45 | 1knn428 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I'm not sure if this is alexithymia | I'm very good at identifying emotions but something else is abnormal. I don't have a sense of emotional permanency (I can very quickly go from hating someone to liking them and back again), I'm bad at remembering how I felt during [event] and I usually feel nothing. I have problems regulating my emotions, seeking out p... | 2025-05-15T06:47:07 | 1kn1ot5 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I still feel like a bad person and it sucks, because I don’t actually feel anything. | Hiiiii!
So it has been a while since i posted on here, but i just wanted to share some thoughts about things that have happened in my life recently.
l have started going to school again, and it has been stressful. Cause while i am pretty good at most subjects, i am absolutely horrible at the two subjects that are pri... | 2025-05-14T09:50:35 | 1kmb7bl | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I dont feel sad about my grandma | I DONT HAVE DIAGNOSED ALEXITHYMIA
My grandma, who I grew up with – we used to cook together, go for walks, buy lottery tickets and bet, work in the garden, and joke around – is now in a long-term care facility and probably won't make it until the end of the year. She barely moves, hardly speaks, has hallucinations, an... | 2025-05-12T20:25:08 | 1kl2zmx | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Cure for alexithymia | I've apparently been diagnosed with bipolar and I realised I have alexithymia. I've been discouraged to take psylocibin mushrooms for the possible risk of psychosis or mania. Yesterday, I took some and I had the most beautiful experience I could ever imagine. It's like my eyes were opened and I could see. I felt emotio... | 2025-05-12T14:02:36 | 1kktam2 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | alexithymia ( I hope this helps someone- you are free to reach out) | "There is a harsh difference in being able to feel and being able to express.- and it matters"
Speaking for a whole bunch of people here ,
They say,
We only understand the value of things that we don't have ---
Well sometimes we have too much of something and we have had it for so long and sometimes so early in life... | 2025-05-12T17:23:34 | 1kkyby0 | 1 | 1 |
Alexithymia | Does your body ever react? | does it ever react as if you’re feeling something? a few days ago i cried. not sobbing, just silent tears for a few minutes. i was thinking about my life and my lost dreams, all the invalidations and injustices and insensitivities and it happened. i haven’t cried in years. but when i searched within myself for the emot... | 2025-05-12T05:30:11 | 1kkkuaw | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Emotion Dictionary? | Hi all,
I have been looking for something that may be able to act as an emotional dictionary, potentially with examples of how they typically feel in the body, the behaviours or urges that may be associated, and the needs that aren't being met when feeling these emotions?
I have found apps like How We Feel and Animi... | 2025-05-11T15:39:52 | 1kk3vxf | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Looking for people who can share their experiences with me | Hi! I’m an interaction design student working on a project that explores how people with alexithymia can experience and express emotions - especially through non-verbal and visual means. I’m building an interactive art piece that uses real-time body data (like heart rate) to create visuals that reflect emotional states... | 2025-05-10T11:50:53 | 1kj8fy2 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Do you have good or bad days or neutral? | I've been asking myself this for a while now. In my head, good moments are yellow and bad/sad moments are blue and neutral is gray, but when I look back on my day to analyse how it's been, it's almost always been gray woth VERY few exceptions. Do you feel something similar? I'm thinking i might have alexithymia. | 2025-05-09T04:52:27 | 1kiads3 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Help needed – survey about alexithymia for school project | Hi everyone!
I'm doing a school project on alexithymia and have created a short survey. I'm looking for people aged **15 and older** who are willing to fill it out.
It only takes about 5 to 10 minutes and is completely anonymous.
**Link to the survey:** [https://forms.gle/dX7fCH2fuE1a1niV6](https://forms.gle/dX7fCH2... | 2025-05-08T08:07:30 | 1khkrlq | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Another perspective on not feeling. | I haven't felt anything for several years. I don't even remember what it was like to feel, but I reflected a little and discovered several things about myself. I simply don't need to feel. I can live just for the pleasure of tasting food and the pleasure of conquest. It's better to do this than to keep brooding and try... | 2025-05-06T19:44:50 | 1kgdqp6 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Friendship | I'm 26 yo female living in an international town in South Asia and it has been hard to make and more so in maintaining friendships and i was wondering if it is worsen connected to alexithymia .
I have many disabilities and I never initiate conversations and i would never know how to include myself, for example ... At a... | 2025-05-06T02:23:04 | 1kftqcr | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Don’t really know where else to ask this, feeling “intellectually sad” but not “emotionally sad” ?? | Apologies if I end up explaining any of this poorly. I think by nature describing emotions is kinda hard without a lot of metaphors anyway.
Basically, I feel like I “know” I am sad, without actually… feeling sad? My thoughts are horrible and self hating and frustrated and screaming, but emotionally I feel nothing. I’... | 2025-05-03T00:23:40 | 1kdg4tm | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | struggling | I'm not sure what to feel. Or if I'm supposed to feel anything at all. A friend I've known my entire life just passed, as well as my partner of five years. There's nothing there. Nothing. Its just grey. I almost want to say I'm mad at myself for not feeling anything but it just won't happen. I'm not really looking for ... | 2025-05-03T02:16:11 | 1kdi93i | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | How did you find a partner while dealing with alexithymia? | I’m someone with alexithymia, and lately I’ve been reflecting on love and relationships. I often feel like I’m incapable of love or even recognizing emotions clearly — my own or others’. When I hear people talk about what they look for in a partner, they often say "someone emotionally mature" or "with high emotional in... | 2025-04-30T09:46:59 | 1kbcij4 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I'm jealous of people who felt feeling | I didn't felt anything until 18.
And I'm jelous of people's happy momments, struggles, angsty teenager phase
that they learned that struggling, negative emotions, positive emotions are normal. They learned how to deal with them (at least at some level). That their body and mind automatically does not reject feelings
... | 2025-04-30T10:21:34 | 1kbd0sc | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Is it possible to have alexithymia while still being an emotional person? | When analyzing my decisions, I know most of them are based on deeply held values and principles, and it doesn't feel natural for me to rely on hard logic. I crave connections with other people, and I'm by no means withdrawn. People say I'm too emotional, But when I try to describe what I'm actually feeling, I run into ... | 2025-04-27T05:37:34 | 1k8wqdb | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Alexithymia and video games | I am curious about what everyone’s experience has been with playing video games. What genre do you play? What do you avoid? I have avoided really tough games because I know I won’t feel happiness or relief or anything motivating like that when I overcome a challenging opponent, but I also have a weird sense of fomo tha... | 2025-04-26T04:08:34 | 1k84aan | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | What are your experiences with meds? | If you are open to sharing your experiences with meds, I'd be very happy to hear. My specific questions are: Which med were you on, how did it make you feel (how did it help you? How did it damage you?), what were the side-effects and was it worth it? If you have been on lots of medication and don't want to list every ... | 2025-04-25T19:19:30 | 1k7tdvg | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | No facial expressions, anyone can relate?? | Since I was around 18.. I have completely lost my ability to form any facial expressions.
Even if something surprises me suddenly, like let's say a jump scare image , I'd only open my eyes a bit wider as a reaction to it , ... and then that's about it.
Only emotion I can experience is dysphoria . But for the most pa... | 2025-04-25T17:35:57 | 1k7qvjb | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Do I have alexithymia? | My mental health hasn’t been doing the best as of late, and I want to understand my situation better so that I can find a way to combat it.
I largely feel empty inside, like there’s nothing there and just a “weight” in my chest. Sometimes I feel physical sensations like tingling or goosebumps, but other than that ins... | 2025-04-25T09:20:41 | 1k7gm6w | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Is this alexithymia | I was wondering if this was an alexithymic experience. Like right now, I don’t FEEL anything in this moment, I just feel normal and like I’m observing. I am enjoying what I’m doing right now, I know that, but I don’t really have anything going on. I’m just here right now, witnessing everything going on around me, worry... | 2025-04-24T15:45:44 | 1k6vhzy | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | What is this called? | So everyone always says stuff like “alexithymia means an inability to describe emotions, not an absence of emotions”. If that’s the case, what is it called when you genuinely have an absence of certain emotions? Or what conditions lack deep emotions? | 2025-04-24T15:27:02 | 1k6v1dd | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Possible way to cry | Hi, so reccently I discovered the Game "Tell me why". it is on Steam and is ery emotional. It Made me cry twice already and I have Not finished playing it yet. Do any of you Guys have Heard about that Game or played it even, If so did it make you cry as Well? And did you feel anything while crying, I didnt. | 2025-04-24T09:38:28 | 1k6o4iu | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I miss crying | I just wish I could cry again. It's been about a year since I've really been able to cry it all out or bring myself to the emotional state where I could. I just feel sad with no outlet for it and I just don't know what to do with it all. It just leaves me to lay there and not be able to process anything I'm feeling | 2025-04-24T00:14:29 | 1k6en7s | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Cognitive/Affective Alexithymia? | So after a whole bunch of "is it normal to tell your emotions based purely on physical sensations?" I finally came to the conclusion that I probably have cognitive alexithymia.
But like … I *can* tell my emotions? Like if I'm feeling really intense emotion. If I'm extremely stressed about a deadline I forgot about or ... | 2025-04-23T05:14:52 | 1k5rbvw | 1 | 1 |
Alexithymia | Motivation letter | So hi, I come here to ask for help. I need to write motivation letter (for phd entrance exam). It has two parts: in first you write about your experience (so that’s fine), but the other half is for your motivation and I struggle a lot, because I kinda don’t have motivation to do even simple things and with depression a... | 2025-04-23T07:29:17 | 1k5tag0 | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Is this alexithymia? I have emotions, but I don’t feel love, or care, and I don’t miss people | Years ago, when my daughter was little, I was away from home on business for a while, and when I finally came back, she cried real tears and said, “I missed you.” I was flabbergasted. I didn’t know what to make of it. The idea that someone had a feeling about my absence was a weird, foreign notion. But suddenly, all th... | 2025-04-22T00:29:59 | 1k4t7qs | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Help! AuDHD empath married to alexithymic. | I love my husband. We’ve been married for 12 years, been close friends for 15. I do not want to live life without him. But his alexithymia is wearing me down. I feel so unseen and lonely. I don’t know to do. I don’t know how much longer I can take it. We are finally in couples therapy, which is beneficial. Is it reason... | 2025-04-21T01:31:01 | 1k41v1p | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Gp offered me emotional blockers for a condition I can't understand my emotions | I explained to my Dr I was suffering with my alexithymia, she told me she didn't know what that is, I expected this so I asked her to good it and she refused and ask me to explain it.
I explained in short its an inability to notice my own emotions like autism.
She then suggested to put me on an SSRI an emotions blocker... | 2025-04-20T11:56:43 | 1k3kx8h | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Living out my emotions and physical sensations in my head | Heya! Was wondering if any of yall could relate to this? I’ve been going down some medical rabbit holes as of late, and while I’ve had trouble figuring out others emotions…I’ve had more issues figuring out my own emotions and being able to identify what inner physical sensations I’m feeling while being able to accurate... | 2025-04-18T13:19:56 | 1k24rdi | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Romantic and emotional support | First of all: I dont have diagnosed alexithymia, but i literally have most of symptoms. And i never had girlfriend.
I was thinking I probably won't be able to give my future girlfriend (if there is one haha) any romance. For me, just saying "I love you" is unnatural, let alone having romantic moments with her. Further... | 2025-04-17T21:22:08 | 1k1o3q7 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Recognizing feelings via physical sensations | Some physical sensations that give me hints on what my emotions are at that moment:
- A burning in my chest usually means anger.
- A "spark" kind of thing in my chest, usually after someone tells me good news, means either excitement or happiness. Sadly this sensation lasts as much as the burning one, which can be at b... | 2025-04-17T18:06:13 | 1k1jgym | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Do you have trouble with noticing and acknowledging other people's emotions? | I have been reading a lot about emotional dysregulation lately as I have a friend with BPD that I struggle to communicate with. Particularly the necessity of validation of emotion which I believe is where things frequently go sideways with us.
I mentioned on another subreddit that I have trouble validating as it feels... | 2025-04-17T16:43:40 | 1k1hftu | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Relationships and alexithymia. | I'm 16 and I've been going out with my first girlfriend for two months now. I'm kind of a lonely person; I've got lots of friends but I prefer to stay home most of the time. I got told that I had Alexithymia when I was 13-14 at the hospital after an attempt, and I keep getting it told by my psychologist from time to ti... | 2025-04-17T18:03:30 | 1k1jekz | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Online questionnaires are full of loaded questions | I'm not sure if this is just a further sign I have Alexithymia or if it's a sign I have something else.
The thing is, I don't talk to people, I prefer to keep to myself. I've worked at my current job for 4 years and I've never initiated a conversation with anyone, and when they initiate a conversation with me I have t... | 2025-04-17T14:09:42 | 1k1dqnk | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | How to tell if my partner has alexithymia? | I've been in a relationship for about half a year, and I'm starting to think that my partner might have alexithymia. She has mentioned that she believes she may be on the autism spectrum to some degree. What are the best ways to recognize alexithymia in a relationship, and how can I best support her? | 2025-04-17T13:30:37 | 1k1cu5k | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Emptiness | At times I shut myself off from everyone; only talking when I have to. I also became less open; since most people I know find me annoying whenever I talk a lot; yes I know im in a bad crowd but its the only crowd I have anyways so I just stay around it.
I don’t know what to do anymore, it feels like midday I’m in a vo... | 2025-04-16T11:08:33 | 1k0hqsx | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Is this alexithymia? | I recently heard abt this word not so long ago while talking about a character and I thought that it felt sort of what I thought abt for a while. I've had a bit of experience with dissociation in general in the way that I would feel out of body and it'd take a few to get back to a fully normal state and it'd sometimes ... | 2025-04-16T08:07:07 | 1k0f5f8 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Hermeneutical injustice. | Hermeneutical injustice occurs when someone's experiences are not well understood — by themselves or by others — because these experiences do not fit any concepts known to them.
Heard this term recently, and I just felt like it was very similar to what I feel. Any thoughts? | 2025-04-15T17:56:31 | 1jzygbl | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | shortly about my experience od alexithymia and bad experience with gestalt therapy | hi,
so as you may know alexythymia is not always about ONLY lack of emotions but can also be about not really getting signals from your body (like sensory stuff for instance) and it's true for me
my alexithymia stems from dissociation (and I deffinitely have some kind of dissociacion disorder
and for context: I've ... | 2025-04-15T07:49:22 | 1jzm6jq | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | struggles | Hi my name is Max. I'm ftm and personally have never met anyone even similar to me and it's a constant struggle to make friends. Does anyone else have Alexithymia and Aphantasia? It's come to my attention that I am very not normal. And these are a few new things I've learned about myself in the past 2 years. I have s... | 2025-04-14T15:15:07 | 1jz1cny | 1 | 1 |
Alexithymia | Depression and Anxiety | I only recently learned about Alexithymia and that I certainly have it. I do feel like my alexithymia is a learned case and not something I was born with. There's a video on tiktok that explains it very well. I've never felt so seen and validated while hearing other people's experiences and the similar issues they face... | 2025-04-13T19:04:13 | 1jyf9bl | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Has anyone here actually learned to label emotions better? What really helped you (if anything)? | Hey everyone,
I know that for most here, naming emotions feels somewhere between confusing and impossible. But I’ve seen a few posts where people seem to have made some progress, and I wanted to dig deeper.
Personally, I’ve tried a few tools. The Emotion Wheel was mostly overwhelming (too many words that I didn’t fee... | 2025-04-11T21:47:54 | 1jx1klo | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Help! | I’m writing a story based on how someone with Alexithymia may see the world, I have never heard of this condition before but recently found out about it and felt a creative surge. I apologize if it seems disrespectful or insensitive to ask but how would someone with Alexithymia see the world? If you were to see your Gr... | 2025-04-10T16:03:29 | 1jw1ip4 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | My boyfriend has Alexithymia and issues are coming up, any thoughts? | We’ve been together for 3 years, but these problems have only really come up within the past 2 months. My boyfriend was isolating themself and we talked about what was going on; they’d been struggling with understanding their emotions and these thoughts they’d have about a mutual friend of ours. What was explained was ... | 2025-04-10T14:31:39 | 1jvzcl6 | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | DAE relate to this? | First of all, idk if I’m alexithymic, I don’t have a diagnosis, but I do relate to a lot of what ppl say in this community. Anyway, one thing I like to do is drive around for hours with my music on full blast and just ponder what the hell is wrong with me. It’s borderline obsessive and concerning. I literally spend mos... | 2025-04-08T18:12:51 | 1jukefu | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Does therapy work for alexithymia? | 15f, I got diagnosed with ASD 2-3 years ago, and I was also told I had alexithymia. It’s a huge struggle for me to not be able to communicate my thoughts and emotions, and I was wondering if therapy would help? Like if it would teach me how to communicate them or how to learn what they are. I’m just not sure it would b... | 2025-04-08T11:43:45 | 1jubi5p | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I don’t know how to title this one.😅😅 | Hiiiii!
I have realised that whenever i am upset i never feel upset. Y’know?
Like when i am upset with someone, i‘ll act super upset, often even end up crying, but i don’t actively feel upset. For example, a while ago, a few people made fun of me, and even though i was hurt by their behaviour, and have been thinking... | 2025-04-08T16:40:06 | 1jui2ya | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | I used to be a pretty lively kid? | I’ve been through a lot of emotional abuse growing up but I remember I was so talkative and happy as a kid but I guess something happened to me one day where I just became so fed up with the world that that little boy just retracted inside and never came back up, I never know how to explain how I’m feeling, where I’m f... | 2025-04-07T21:44:07 | 1jtx80l | 0 | 0 |
Alexithymia | Alexithymia without autism, PTSD, etc... | Hello! I'm just wondering, is it possible to have alexithymia but not as a symptom of any disorder (commonly autism, sometimes as a PTSD/CPTSD response, possibly some more)? I have alexithymia with main deficits in identifying emotions but I don't have other symptoms of any disorder and I don't have any trauma or stres... | 2025-04-07T15:53:01 | 1jtom0o | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | DAE say things they don’t mean? | I THINK I have alexithymia but I haven’t been diagnosed. I resonate heavily with everything it stands for but I still feel like I’m being an imposter about it or like it’s not exactly the right thing LOL anyway. Do any of yall say things you don’t mean? Like for example, I’ll say one thing and in the moment I think it’... | 2025-04-06T03:40:22 | 1jsl7rl | 1 | 0 |
Alexithymia | What do you wish your sibling knew? Looking to understand Alexithymia as a sibling to someone who has it. | Hi! I would like to learn more about how I can support my sister more. I’m 23 and she’s 26. She is diagnosed with Autism and displays all the traits of Alexithymia (not formally diagnosed as professionals are limited in our area). My family is very neruospicy but I don’t share this with her and I really would like to m... | 2025-04-06T03:11:00 | 1jskq3e | 1 | 0 |
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