impersonal
Jana, Weiyu
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- Feb 2018
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Traumatic brain injury is also implicated in the development alexithymia, and those with traumatic brain injury are six times more likely to exhibit alexithymia
my father punishing me inadequately? my father neglecting my mom? my parents divorcing? you lashing out at me (obviously for good reasons)?
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a stimulus-bound, externally oriented cognitive style
check
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constricted imaginal processes, as evidenced by a scarcity of fantasies
debatable but mostly true
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difficulty describing feelings to other people
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difficulty identifying feelings and distinguishing between feelings and the bodily sensations of emotional arousal
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"secondary alexithymia" which is state-dependent and disappears after the evoking stressful situation has changed
It escalates with intense emotions like hijacks which I cannot recognise
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Inadequate "differentiation" between self and others by alexithymic individuals has also been observed
constant feeling of disconnection
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dependent
You?
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dominant
my first girlfriend
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The parent's emotional state is important for determining how any child might develop.
My absent father has the same thing going on. My mother was neglected by her own alcoholic mother and her father died when she was little. My emotions were neglected constantly.
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For McDougall, the disaffected individual had at some point "experienced overwhelming emotion that threatened to attack their sense of integrity and identity", to which they applied psychological defenses to pulverize and eject all emotional representations from consciousness.
You're the most overwhelming thing ever (positively and negatively) + I read you as attacking me quite often. What is miss is the emotional reasons I'm deaf to.
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These problems seriously limit their responsiveness to psychoanalytic psychotherapy
this is why your methods of presuasion did not work for me no matter how hard you were banging on
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especially in relation to objects
this explains my lack of interest in a lot of fields
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monotonous detail
I do this all the time, especially at work or when I explain something
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superadjusted to reality
"I cannot fulfil your terms and conditions"
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"primary alexithymia" which is an enduring psychological trait that does not alter over time
I got this bubling lightly inside depending on the circumstances
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Online Alexithymia Questionnaire (OAQ-G2)
my score was 138 - heavy traits
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