HealthyGamerGG Therapist Explains Why You Don't Feel Anything Anymore... (Alexithymia 101)
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Nov 22, 2022 AI Snips
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Alexithymia and its consequences
- Alexithymia, or emotional colorblindness, hinders experiencing internal emotional states.
- This unawareness can cause various problems like lack of purpose, addiction, and relationship issues.
Overlooking Alexithymia
- People seek solutions for lack of purpose, addiction, and relationship problems without realizing the root cause is alexithymia.
- Emotional colorblindness is often overlooked in advice and solutions.
Components of Alexithymia
- Key components of alexithymia include difficulty identifying and describing feelings.
- It also involves externally oriented thinking and constricted imagination.