Alexithymia is described as "emotional blindness" and means people can't name or recognize emotions. It often stems from childhood trauma, where disconnecting from emotions is a coping mechanism.

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

Many people can recognize what emotions they are feeling and express them in words to others. However, some people have difficulty recognizing and expressing their emotions, and this tendency or ...

The word alexithymia is derived from Greek and is defined as the lack of words for emotions. The term was coined by Peter Sifneos in 1973 after conducting clinical observations on psychosomatic ...

When most of us are stressed out we're able to intuitively name the emotion because of the way it makes us feel. But when Dr Krysia Waldock is struggling it can take a bit longer for the penny to drop ...

Psychiatrist Saitō Satoru discusses a mental disorder in which individuals become incapable of identifying or expressing their own emotions as they force themselves to appear normal before others. He ...