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 ...

Having alexithymia can make it hard for a person to express or identify their emotions. The condition can occur with certain conditions, such as depression, neurological conditions, and brain injury.

Alexithymia is when a person has difficulty experiencing, identifying, and expressing emotions. It is not a mental health disorder but has links with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating ...

It is widely accepted that autism is associated with disordered emotion processing and, in particular, with deficits of emotional reciprocity such as impaired emotion recognition and reduced empathy.

Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. All of us sometimes find ourselves at a loss for words, unable to describe our experience in the moment. When you receive unexpected news or have to ...

Have you ever wanted to convey a feeling but just couldn't find the right words? Millions of people struggle with a personality trait known as alexithymia, which means "no words for feelings." ...

There is a persistent stereotype that people with autism are individuals who lack empathy and cannot understand emotion. It’s true that many people with autism don’t show emotion in ways that people ...

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 ...