Alexithymia, If Life Is Too Logical And Not Wear Feelings

People who suffer from alexithymia is known as a figure that is too logical, not sentimental, not friends because of lack of empathy, make personal decisions based on principles, not feelings. This condition because the patient is not able to spend what she feels.

Everyone usually knows what he felt was wrong and know how to describe his feelings. But people who have alexithymia would be difficult to express feelings, emotions do not even know what she feels.

Alexithymia is a psychological disorder characterized by an inability to verbally identify and describe emotions and feelings experienced in him like everyone else.

Usually people with this disorder more aloof, less capable of empathy, have great difficulty in understanding and responding to others' feelings.

People who can not verbally express negative emotions that he felt would have difficulty to neutralize the emotion in his body.

Previously, alexithymia is often considered to be accompanied with psychosomatic disorders that involve the physical symptoms of the body which is exacerbated by the mind, like a man who was furious but could not express his anger will experience abdominal pain.

But apparently this complaint may appear in different forms, even in recent studies are known in some people with alexithymia just does not show any physical complaints.

Currently there are 2 types of alexithymia in mind, namely:

1. Alexithymia state, usually have a specific cause and a temporary condition. One example of the most common causes of this condition is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the terrible events they experienced.

2. Alexithymia trait, which is a characteristic inherent in a person's personality. This type can be caused by congenital or related events at an early age, such as abuse or neglect.

Someone who has alexithymia will be marked by a few things in his daily life, namely:

1. It's hard to talk about his own emotions
2. Often regarded by others as being too logical, not sentimental, not friends because of lack of empathy
3. Will feel confused by the emotional reactions of others
4. Give rambling answers to one simple question
5. Rarely daydreaming or imagining about her future prospects
6. Having a calm reaction of the works of art, literature or music
7. Making a personal decision based on principles, not feelings
8. Sometimes suffer physiological disorders such as abdominal pain, hot flushes, headaches

To find this condition is usually based on characteristic variables measured by the researchers and psychologists through a questionnaire. Each answer has a certain value, future value of the total of this questionnaire will be analyzed to demonstrate the presence or absence of alexithymia in that person.