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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Not everyone who says they're fine is lying. Some people genuinely cannot locate the word for what they're feeling because nobody ever sat with them long enough to help them name it, and fine became the only vocabulary they trust - Silicon Canals

Many people struggle to articulate their emotions, often responding with 'fine' due to a condition called alexithymia, which affects emotional vocabulary.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Men who grew up without emotional support often display these 8 traits as adults - Silicon Canals

Men raised without emotional support often cannot identify or express emotions, causing relational difficulties despite professional success.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

The Emotional Inheritance You Never Asked For

Parental alexithymia impairs emotional socialization, contributing to daughters' intimacy struggles and sons' somatic symptoms, but emotional literacy can be learned in adulthood.
Psychology
fromMail Online
4 months ago

Revealed: The key sign that indicates a woman might be a PSYCHOPATH

Higher alexithymia and anhedonia correlate with psychopathy in women but not in men.
fromPsychology Today
5 months ago

Mentalization for Addiction

Researchers have found that mentalization is an undervalued treatment for people in addiction recovery. Mentalization-based treatment helps people reflect upon and redirect urges and impulses. Knowing one's mind, feelings, triggers, and motivations, however conflicted, improves outcomes in work, love, life, and re-creating a life. Better understanding of the inner states and traits of others is also useful. Secure attachment fosters mentalization or a capacity to understand, process, and manage one's inner life.
Mental health
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
7 months ago

One Type of Empathy Associated with Autism

Autistic people are not universally lacking empathy; autistic traits relate to different empathy types, with co-occurring factors like alexithymia affecting empathic responses.
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