Researchers find that
alexithymia has the same effect on people with and without mental disorders and that it undermines the ability to describe others' feelings as well as one's own.
The construct of
alexithymia, for example, refers to difficulty in identifying and distinguishing bodily sensations of emotional arousal and difficulty in describing feelings.
Alexithymia and somatic complaints in psychiatric out-patients.
Desperately seeking language: Understanding, assessing, and treating normative male
alexithymia.
Alexithymia and PTSD have been frequently reported among patients with chronic pain (24).
University of Missouri interpersonal communication researchers found when one spouse suffers from
alexithymia, the partners can experience loneliness and a lack of intimate communication that lead to poor marital quality.
The relationship between emotional intelligence and
alexithymia.
The aim of this study was to compare the intensity of depressive and anxiety symptoms and the level of
alexithymia in patients with alopecia areata and healthy control subjects.
Alexithymia, the inability to appropriately recognize one's own emotions, is known to be widespread in early-traumatized PTSD populations.
The emotional and behavioral changes are numerous but may include emotional labile, agitation, aggression,
alexithymia, impulsivity, irritability, and the more passive disturbances such as depression, apathy, and lack of initiative or anergia.
But, over time, she was plagued by depression and anxiety and she was diagnosed with
alexithymia, a condition similar to post-traumatic stress disorder.
About forty percent of alcoholics who are not drinking have
alexithymia which may be part of the reason that they are drawn to or attracted to alcohol because they really have trouble with their emotional experiences.
