If you struggle to identify your feelings on a regular basis, you might just have alexithymia - here's how you can know if ...

Alexithymia is a personality construct characterized by altered emotional awareness which has been gaining diagnostic prevalence in a range of neuropsychiatric disorders, with notably high rates of ...

1 Division of Psychology and Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United ...

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.

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As human beings, our lives are profoundly influenced by how we experience, handle, and express emotions. At some point in our lives, we all experience extreme sadness, fear, stress, joy, and love.

How can you describe what it feels like to have difficulty describing what things feel like? That's the challenge that people with alexithymia face everyday. Alexithymia is a pervasive inability to ...

Alexithymia is the inability to identify emotions in oneself and others. People with this condition lack awareness of specific feelings and may mix up emotions and physical sensations. Alexithymia is ...

The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of alexithymia and emotional dysregulation in women with vaginismus not associated with other organic or psychopathological disorders. The study ...

Department of Medicine, Padua University Hos-pital, Padua, Italy. Woman and Child Care Department, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy. Woman and Child Care Department, Padua Uni-versity Hospital, ...