What Does a Person With Alexithymia Feel?

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Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have your own doctor, perhaps these videos can help prepare you for your discussion with your doctor.

[natasha]

I have social anxiety, but I also don’t know what my feelings are 95% of the time lol

[Voila]

In social situations i just go blank. No feeling, no opinion, mostly just thoughts on how i have better things to do. Thank you Dr. Btw. I really appreciate your explanations to the many human experiences. ❤❤

[Sundaisfreelee]

This particular trait helped me to get my son diagnosed with ASD at 16 . I came across alexathymia while studying social work in grad school . Today my son is in therapy for ASD 2 and in college for pharmacy school . Thanks for shedding a light on this… and all your content !

[dosbabymama]

Whats it called when you've identified the emotion and you know what you want to say, the words are RIGHT THERE, but they physically won't leave your mouth? Sometimes i feel like I'm choking and my head is going explode because I can't push the words out!

[AdrianColley]

Word of the year: alexithymia. You heard it here first.

[ana]

Thank you, Doctor, your videos are very informative and helpful. And your structure into thematic playlist categories is very considerate of you. Bless you for your kind work and professional dedication.

[socpancake]

I'm sorry but the tiktok clips are so cringe and distracting. i love your educational content and the longform videos, but whoever edits these shorts did you dirty, Dr Marks

[beastewart]

With alexithymia ..do you have to have all of the symptoms? I have some but not all. I have trouble describing my feelings but can interpret what others feel and say.

[jenniferritz]

How do you differentiate this from autism?

[krizan]

For, I can't tell someone how much I'm in love with them. I know I have feelings for them, I just don't say anything. It became too much on Saturday night and I was in tears. Not balling my eyes out, just a few tears. Several people noticed. My crush also noticed and asked if I was okay. But instead of taking that opportunity to tell her about my social anxiety & alexithymia, I simply nodded saying that "I'll be alright". I lied. 😢

[Igneous]

I'm indifferent to the faces of suffering. I've seen enough of it in my life to know they can't be helped and they are neither helpful either.

I can't be bothered to feel your pain anymore. It's just an annoyance now; like a mosquito landing on my skin.

[stephaniemariemcdonald]

I had cluster narcissist parenting my mom has black hair dark brown eyes my sister's have brown hair brown hazel eyes and I look like them I just have blue eyes & blonde hair

[elizabethwilk]

I can’t read in front of a big group nor give a speech

[Technology_Releases]

✮✮✮ *Always happy viewing your videos* ✮✮✮🤩✌🏼

[kikiteu]

I'm slowly getting out of social anxiety, but still during crowd and extreme focus, the symptoms shows up and i know its happening as i wanted to improve. I also lack ar describing feelings, because I'm bad at communicating?

[nevergiveup]

Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death?

[laurainrevison]

Alexythemia is caused by trying to live in a world not made for you.

[laurainrevison]

Or is it selective mutism from undiagnosed Autism

[FringeWizard]

I have alexithymia and the people you use in your clips just look like normies to me who are expressing lots of emotion wildly gesticulating. Maybe use clips of people who actually have this? Also yeah I almost never say anything to people because I have to think everything over and anyone that wants to talk a lot will end up talking for hours before I get a word in because I am careful what I say.

[saltymcnuggies]

I've learned that you can't sound stupid if you present yourself like an airhead socially awkward weirdo from the get go 😢🎉