348 - Transforming Feelings Into Words
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
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Symptoms of Emotional Detachment
Alexithymia is the phenomenon of having difficulty experiencing, identifying or expressing emotions. It can be anything from genetics to environmental factors to brain injury and it could occur as a result of trauma or PTSD. There was a really tiny study of 22 war veterans with PTSD found that 41% had alexithymia. And there's some theories floating around out there that the way that our brain works as far as survival mechanisms goes.
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