Alexithymia is a concept also known as emotional deafness or emotional blindness. It is the name given to the person's inability to recognize his/her emotions and to establish the correct connection between thought and emotion as a result of low emotional awareness.
It has been observed that people with alexithymia problems are prone to addictions such as substance addiction, gambling, and eating disorders. These types of people have a low quality of life and cannot easily enjoy anything.
While life is devoid of joy for alexithymic individuals, it can also become difficult for those living with alexithymic individuals. Because these types of people have trouble establishing and maintaining relationships. Naturally, various problems are bound to arise in these relationships.
Various studies have been conducted to understand how alexithymia arises, and a lot of neurological, socio-cultural and psychological data has been obtained. Some of these reasons are as follows:
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In children who are deprived of attention and compassion, the emotion recognition part of the brain does not develop sufficiently,
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The connection between the brain hemispheres due to disconnection,
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Failure to translate sensory stimuli into cognitive emotional experience as a result of being blocked,
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Traumatic experiences that occurred in childhood,
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Many reasons can be listed, such as dysfunction in the frontal shell of the brain.
To make a general statement, we can express emotions in childhood. It is said that it is necessary to hide or suppress, not to suppress. The person thinks that showing or experiencing emotions is wrong and tries to confine them to his body. One of the best examples of this situation is the teaching of the stereotype 'men don't cry' to boys. A boy learns that the basic requirement of masculinity is to stand like a rock and not let emotions out, and builds his personality and the way he experiences emotions on this basis. After a certain point, he cannot recognize his feelings and cannot express them even if he wants to.
It has also been revealed that alexiximic people are mostly men. In fact, the example we gave above may help us understand one of the reasons for this situation. move forward With increasing age, alexithymia increases as a person tends to suppress emotions more.
Individuals with this condition can enter the treatment process with a psychologist. With psychotherapy, the person will face his or her emotions and make great progress in expressing them.
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