During this Let's Talk, I discuss my own experiences with Alexithymia, what it is, how it affects me and some of the techniques and processing tools I use to try and make sense of what the hell is going on inside my head
The talking through your emotions really makes sense to me. I often have to talk through it quite a bit to work out what on earth I'm feeling and what on earth caused it. I definitely struggle with defining negative emotions, and I don't actually know if I am the best at defining my positive emotions, because I have never really tried. I might see how much I can.
Thank you so much for putting a word to my experience! I’m am slowly realizing that the way I experience isn’t the way everyone else experiences at the same time I am not alone in this!
Never heard of this before now, but it hits home so much. I always assumed it was related to my dyslexia (which was much more broadly defined 40+ years ago) but I've been recently wondering if I'm neuro-divergent in other ways due to things like this. Thank you for sharing. This was helpful and insightful.
I think there's a lot of crossover with ADHD experiences with dyslexia - I took a screening test for work a few months back and I flagged for dyslexia far more than I had expected, especially as someone who's always loved writing and reads loads too! I'm really glad there's so much more information put there about this sort of thing
I suppose that's what comes with being a small creator, but interaction like this with my videos REALLY helps feed the algorithm so I super appreciate you taking the time to comment 💛
Thank you so much for this video, I feel like you described the way I've been feeling and I feel so validated. Every time I went to the doctors for anything (mental or physical), they would ask me to describe what I was experiencing and my mind would sort of go blank but then my masking would kind of kick in like "oh crap I've gotta say something because I don't want them to think I'm just making it up!" so I would just default to whatever other people have described the suspected thing as or I would explain it in a way that doesn't capture the full extent of the problem but I didn't know how else to describe it. And asking other people about something to figure out your feelings is so real lol. I remember feeling anger when a toxic friend said something but that feeling was so surprising to me and I just kind of went back and forth between anger and feeling guilty for the anger because I wasn't sure if I should even be "allowed" to feel this way (spoiler, I was allowed because the "friend's" behavior was not okay) but I couldn't fully understand until I had told my dad about what happened and told my partner at the time what happened and they were able to help me through that. Anyways tl;dr Thank you so much and I'm glad I'm not alone in this :)
@@bananas-01 at the most basic level, piano can be improvised on fairly easily if you only hit white keys and avoid hitting keys that touch. You can pretty much just play whatever if you follow those two rules, even knowing nothing about music. Hope that helps you feel it out
I’ve just started to try using my daydreams as a way to interpret my emotions since my maladaptive daydreaming seems to kick in more often when I’m stressed and I figure sing daydreams tend to be the mind imaging resolving a problems it might give me hints to what my actual problem is but then sometimes it’s the opposite where I’m incapable of daydreaming so I just have to go off googling what in situations tends to stress people out because I’ve spent most of my life not knowing when I’m stressed and thinking I’m fine when I’m actually on the edge of burnout.
I also struggle with this, I thought something was wrong with me because I didn’t feel love like my family descried or I know that I just feel off, and I don’t know why I feel nervous, anxious, or sad Because I can’t remember why.
good and bad emotions just all feel basically the same to me. then calmness feels like sleepy. I didn't know I had this until my therapist asked me to explain an emotion and just had no words for it. All I could get out is "its hard" lol
I never really identified with this until I started feeling like a broken record always saying "I'm frustrated". I could never find the right words, and I didn't make the connection with that and alexithymia until I really heard people defining alexithymia by saying "couldn't find the words" then I was like OOOHHHH!!!
