In my #autism assessment, the psychologist asked me what made me "joyful". I stopped and thought about it, realizing in that moment that I didn't know what "joy" meant.

Let's talk a bit about #alexithymia today!

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#ActuallyAutistic #ASD

Evil? Who told you I was evil?....Is that what they think about me now?....Than I guess it must be true..... What a lonely life it is....to be robot among humans.. They'll never hear me....we dont speak the same..... Hello? Can you hear me now? Of course not.........

#robosona #artwork #Alexithymia

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For years I thought my emotional system was defective. I was wrong.
Alexithymia is not an absence. It is a “low-noise” operating system optimized for logic rather than biochemical storms. I explore this paradox between neurodivergence and neural architecture in this essay.
You can read it for […]

OH YAH #alexithymia is why we need songs to help us work thru. cuz we can’t name the feelings readily, but our body here’s the music n remembers the frequency

#AuDHD

Alexithymia Linked to Depression in HAE Cohort Higher alexithymia scores correlated with greater depressive symptoms, worse fatigue, and reduced mood-related quality of life in HAE.

Definite #Alexithymia was observed in a minority of adults with hereditary angioedema (#HAE), but overall abilities in emotion regulation were not globally deficient. Study in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3Oxw54o

#RareDisease #HereditaryAngioedema #MedSky

Signs of Lack of Empathy and What You Can Do!
A lack of empathy is not sufficient for a diagnosis of narcissism but it underlies several narcissistic traits, such as arrogance, entitlement, and being exploitative.

Read: tinyurl.com/5e5nk379

#Alexithymia #Autism #Empathy #Intimacy #Selfishness

@autistamatic.com.web.brid.gy | Autistamatic: "3 Ways to WIN Autistic Arguments" | #TeatimeWithQuinn #BeKind #Disability #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticTriadOfDistinction #Sensory #DontShout #Emotional #Alexithymia #Veracity #Truth #Facts #Communication
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infographic on emotional regulation featuring a frog. steps: 1. name the feeling 2. check in w/ ur body 3. let it out 4. self soothe

emotional regulation frog

1. name the feeling
2. check in w/ ur body
3. let it out
4. self soothe

if dissociated, #2 looks like asking ourself: are we safe? what is happening around us? (observe w/o judgment)

#AuDHD #OSDD #Alexithymia

Unknown states almost always get extra adrenaline.

The brain would rather overreact than miss danger. Very old survival math, so the ability to accurately name our emotions is actually our stated therapy goal!

#OSDD #alexithymia #AuDHD

#Webinar #Autism #Alexithymia

A must see!⬇️

Very interesting webinar (YT)
on Emotion-Processing in Autistic and non-Autistic adults.
Finally a study that corrects for Alexithymia!

Thank you @connortkeating.bsky.social for your research and for this You Tube webinar!🙏

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#alexithymia

Struggle to connect with your emotions? You could have alexithymia We can all struggle to find the words to explain ourselves, but if you regularly experience feelings that you can't identify, you might have alexithymia. As well as having difficulty naming emotions,...

Struggle to connect with your emotions? You could have alexithymia #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #Alexithymia #MentalHealthAwareness #EmotionalWellness

alt text in English then Spanish then German. . a colorful line drawing of a person filled with faint words for emotions is speaking. a wall of text behind them illustrates that they are talking about factual events that they have done, and they are doing so without pausing. . alexithymia is or can pertain to significant challenges in interpreting, expressing, and understanding emotions. --- Un dibujo lineal a color de una persona, cuyas facciones están compuestas por palabras que representan emociones, está hablando. Una pared de texto detrás de ella ilustra que está hablando sobre hechos concretos que ha vivido, y lo hace sin pausas. La alexitimia es o puede estar relacionada con dificultades significativas para interpretar, expresar y comprender las emociones. --- Eine farbenfrohe Strichzeichnung einer Person, die mit schwachen Wörtern für Emotionen gefüllt ist, spricht. Eine Textwand hinter ihr veranschaulicht, dass sie über tatsächliche Ereignisse spricht, die sie erlebt hat, und dass sie dies ohne Unterbrechung tut. Alexithymie bezeichnet oder kann erhebliche Schwierigkeiten beim Interpretieren, Ausdrücken und Verstehen von Emotionen umfassen.

part of a series
(psychological)
#expression #drawing #dibujo #dessin #zeichnung #art #flynntheghost #psychology #alexithymia #emotions #emotionalblindness #comprehension
#spectrum #symptoms #flataffect

A furry figure filled with a few colors is talking to someone out of frame. the person out of frame says: "what are you feeling right now? anger? sadness? boredom?" the colorful furry replies: "i don't really know... something. maybe? I'm unsure..." . text above and below the furry reads: alexithymia, significant challenges in interpreting, expressing, and understanding emotions.

part of a series
(psychological)
#furry #art #sfw #alexithymia #challenges #emotional #awareness
#emotionalawareness #psychology
#spectrum #symptoms #emotions

#alexithymia #autism

average spotify user listens to 961 hours a year (40 days)

we got 2430 hours (101 days)

$18/a month is a pretty good bargain considering how vital music really is to our well-being

helps with our
#alexithymia as well. often we need music to help us define our feelings

#AuDHD #OSDD #wrapped

Exactly and it gets more complicated if like me you deal with #Autistic #HyperEmpathy & #Alexithymia

Which is why it is a passion of mine that I educate others about

#AuDHD
#AutisticExperience

Using #Digital Phenotypes to Identify Individuals With Alexithymia in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Cross-Sectional Study Background: Alexithymia, defined as difficulty identifying and describing one’s emotions, has been identified as a transdiagnostic emotional process that impacts the course, severity, and treatment outcomes of psychiatric conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As such, alexithymia is an important process to accurately measure and identify in clinical contexts. However, research identifying the association between the experience of alexithymia and psychopathology has been limited by an overreliance on self-report scales, which have restricted use for measuring constructs that involve deficits in self-awareness, such as alexithymia. Hence, more suitable and effective methods of measuring and identifying those experiencing alexithymia in clinical samples are needed. Objective: In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to determine if facial, vocal, and language phenotypes extracted from 1-minute recordings of war veterans with PTSD describing a traumatic event could be used to identify those experiencing alexithymia. Methods: A total of 96 participants were included in this cross-sectional study. Specialized software was used to extract facial, vocal, and language features from the recordings. These features were then integrated into machine learning (extreme gradient boosting [XGBoost]) classification models that were trained and tested within a 5-fold nested cross-validation pipeline for their capacity to classify veterans scoring above the cutoff for alexithymia on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20. Results: The best performing XGBoost classification model trained in the nested cross-validation pipeline was able to classify those experiencing alexithymia with a good level of accuracy (average F1-score=0.78, SD 0.07; average area under the curve score=0.87, SD 0.12). Consistent with theoretical models and past research into phenotypes of alexithymia, language, vocal, and facial features all contributed to the accuracy of the XGBoost classification model. Conclusions: These findings indicate that facial, vocal, and language phenotypes incorporated in machine learning models could represent a promising alternative to identifying individuals with PTSD who are experiencing alexithymia. The further validation and use of this #Approach could facilitate more tailored and effective allocation of treatment resources to individuals experiencing alexithymia in clinical settings.

JMIR Mental Health: Using #Digital Phenotypes to Identify Individuals With Alexithymia in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Cross-Sectional Study #Alexithymia #PTSD #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #DigitalPhenotypes

Autistamatic: "Autism Diagnosis NEEDS Change" | #Disability #AutisticTriadOfDistinction #RateYourFeelings #GradedQuestions #Opinions #Feelings #SocialAssumptions #Interoception #Alexithymia #Veracity #Context #TheoryOfMind #RuleOfThree
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Could be work-related rage. Could be too much strong tea. Shaking. #alexithymia

New findings just accepted! 🧠💓 Links between alexithymia and interoception questionnaires partly reflect overlapping questionnaire items - but not entirely. Even after removing sensation-related items, the connection remains. tinyurl.com/35hbwe87 #interoception #alexithymia

I had some novels self-published on Amazon through smashwords (I think). I took them down from a severe drop on confidence and a boost to imposter syndrome.

Now I'm thinking of revising one and posting it somewhere, but I'm not sure where.

#writing #disabled #autistic #alexithymia #ILoveSpace

En los individuos con dependencia a sustancias, la alexitimia predice la gravedad de la dependencia #substancedependence #alexithymia journals.lww.com/inpj/fulltex...

Sometimes, asking questions about our feelings is how we find the truth of them.

Why am I mad right now?
What else could this be?
What does our body feel like?

That questioning becomes a tool for translating emotions when #alexithymia fogs them over.

#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic

Anger is like the “front door emotion.” It’s quick, protective, easy to express. But when you give yourself quiet time, when you soften and listen more deeply, you can often sense the true core underneath: • Anger → actually grief (something important was lost). • Anger → actually disappointment (your heart hoped for something). • Anger → actually hurt (someone’s words stung). • Anger → actually fear (your system feels unsafe). Time alone lets the “storm front” of anger clear, so you can feel the gentler weather patterns underneath.

Anger is like the “front door emotion.” It’s quick, protective, easy to express. But when we give ourself quiet time, when we soften and listen more deeply, then we can often sense the true core underneath:
#AuDHD #Alexithymia

#Alexithymia has Us feeling like we need time alone to regulate. Often first we feel anger or mad. But we not always really just mad. Sometimes if we feel the feeling a little more gently, after the mad gets out, it might really be sorrow, or grief, or disappointment even. Takes time to know #AuDHD

A screenshot of the How We Feel app on the App Store

Friends, if you struggle with naming & expressing feelings, aka #Alexithymia, u might want to check out the #app #HowWeFeel. Our therapist recommended it & we finally started using it. It’s as easy as u want it to be & it can be linked to health apps if u like tracking that stuff too. #AuDHD #OSDD

Alexithymia Impairs Treatment Outcomes in Functional Defecation Disorder Alexithymia is highly prevalent among individuals with functional defecation disorder and affects QOL, symptom severity, and treatment outcomes.

Identifying and addressing #alexithymia may be essential for optimizing management among individuals with #FDD.

Read More: https://bit.ly/4gA7R3r

Being Yourself in Relationships: Authenticity, People-Pleasing, and Alexithymia Finding your way through love, boundaries, and emotional complexity with neurodivergence.

I share my experiences of love, boundaries, and authenticity as someone living with neurodivergence and alexithymia.
#Neurodiversity #Relationships #Authenticity #Alexithymia #MentalHealth

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