The concept of processing emotions can be complex and confusing for many people.

This can be especially difficult when a person cannot name or find a word that they associate with an emotion.

The late psychiatrist Peter Sifneos, a professor at Harvard, introduced this term in 1972, which means no words for emotions. A person with alexithymia has a hard time processing their own emotions, which affects the way they respond to other people’s emotions, with relationships suffering as a result. Alexithymia is not a mental health disorder, and there is no clinical diagnosis. However, it does appear in conjunction with conditions including autism spectrum disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress, as well as neurologic problems such as brain injury.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/basics/alexithymia

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