What is alexythmia and how does it manifest for those who experience it?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 12 May 17:48
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from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 12 May 17:48
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There are 2 distinct subtypes. Affective alexithymia, which is the inability to physically feel emotions or those are significantly muted.
And cognitive alexithymia, in which the emotions do exist, but those melt together into one unrecognizable mess.
Of course theres some overlap and different degrees of severity for it.
From personal experience. I have affective alexithymia. Basically I’m neutral overwhelming majority of the time, no negative or positive feelings or emotions and once those do manifest, thanks to lack of practice. I can barely figure out what those are. Over the decades I’ve learned to identify a handful of emotions. It’s not only limited to emotions either, all bodily sensetations are effected.
On the positive note, all the usually debilitating emotions are barely a minor nuisance.
Can it be biased towards certain emotions over others, sometimes I wonder if I’m in too good of a mood more often than not
Not inherently, it does effect all emotions pretty much the same. Though one can learn to notice some emotions better than others, which might give an appearance that those emotions are experienced more often.