If you struggle to identify your feelings on a regular basis, you might just have alexithymia - here's how you can know if you do ...

“I would describe my emotional ‘palette’ as very limited,” the research subject wrote. “The subtleties that other people seem comfortable with are really quite alien to me — the distinctions don’t ...

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How can you describe what it feels like to have difficulty describing what things feel like? That's the challenge that people with alexithymia face everyday. Alexithymia is a pervasive inability to ...

The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of alexithymia and emotional dysregulation in women with vaginismus not associated with other organic or psychopathological disorders. The study ...

As human beings, our lives are profoundly influenced by how we experience, handle, and express emotions. At some point in our lives, we all experience extreme sadness, fear, stress, joy, and love.

Side view of two sad good friends embracing in a bedroom in a house interior with a dark light in the background(Getty Images/iStockphoto/AntonioGuillem) At first ...

Reviewed by Aaron Miller, MD, Professor of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Medical Director at the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis, New York, NY ...