Tag: alexithymia
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Living With Alexithymia – Learning To Process Emotion
Living with a reduced connection to my emotions is tough. It doesn’t allow for natural emotional processing, and it leaves me sitting in turmoil I don’t even recognise is happening. How can you process emotions that you can’t see or feel? But that’s starting to change. After a year of hard work regulating my nervous…
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Emotions on Delay: Living with Autistic Emotional Lag
I got some news this week that I knew should trigger an emotional reaction. Logically, it should have hit me like a freight train. But instead? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I may as well have been staring at a shopping list or thinking about putting the bins out. Not a flicker of emotion to work with.…
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Understanding Alexithymia: The Frustration of Not Recognizing Your Own Emotions
It happened again. And it will continue to happen. And I hate it. That big, heavy feeling in my chest that I can’t describe—it sits there, weighs me down, makes me feel sick, and racks my body with what I assume is anxiety. I try all my usual coping mechanisms:✔ Exercise? Doesn’t help.✔ Sticking to…
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