{"id":4441,"date":"2021-06-05T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enorcerna.com\/wiki\/definition\/alexithymia\/"},"modified":"2021-06-05T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T18:49:36","slug":"alexithymia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enorcerna.com\/wiki\/definition\/alexithymia\/","title":{"rendered":"alexithymia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The alexithymia<\/strong> it's a neurological-type disorder<\/strong> that generates in those who suffer it a notorious inability to be able to control and recognize their own emotions<\/strong> and thus leads them to have difficulties with verbal expression<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Specifically, we can establish that the characteristics of every person who suffers from this disease are the following: difficulty both in identifying and describing emotions and feelings, reduced capacity for fantasy, problems in differentiating what are the sensations that their body experiences regarding what are feelings, notorious concern about what are external facts or details ...<\/p>\n

\"Alexithymia\"According to certain statistics, alexithymia affects 8% of men and 1.8% of women. On the other hand, it reaches 30% of people with psychological disturbances<\/strong> and 85% of individuals who suffer autism spectrum disorders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The concept was developed by the psychiatrist Peter E. Sifneos<\/strong> on 1972<\/strong>. When I was working alongside John C. Nemiah<\/strong> in the Beth Israel Hospital<\/strong>, Sifneos<\/strong> noted that a large number of patients with psychosomatic disorders had great difficulty in referring to their emotions. <\/p>\n

Neurologists have found that alexithymics have a anomaly<\/strong> in the brain area that is responsible for analyzing and formulating emotions. Instead of developing brain activity according to the emotional level of each scenario, people who suffer from this neurological disorder reflect a process that varies from very weak to very intense, which affects the fair appreciation of each emotion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The causes of alexithymia can begin to appear in the early childhood years<\/strong>, when the child still lacks hierarchical mental states associated with concepts. Therefore, he addresses emotions through his body. If their parents are unable to provide their child with verbal information about the emotions they are beginning to feel, the child may feel that what is happening cannot be explained in words.<\/p>\n

Experts in this field, in addition to all the aforementioned, basically classify said disease in two fundamental classes. Thus, on the one hand, there would be the primary one, which is one that has its origin in a biological issue, which is why it appears as a consequence of a neurobiological defect or deficiency that is the result of hereditary factors.<\/p>\n

And on the other hand, we would find the so-called secondary alexithymia, which is the one that arises from a series of dramatic situations experienced by an individual both in childhood and in adulthood. Among them we could point out from kidnappings to having witnessed certain hard moments during the course of a warlike conflict. <\/p>\n

In this last specific case of alexithymia, it is important to emphasize that what people who suffer from it do is suppress all that are emotions or painful sensations, repress their feelings, as a way of defense. But not only in a defensive way, to protect themselves, this incapacity related to feelings occurs but also as a form of denial in the face of what can be both traumas and conflicts of different types. <\/p>\n

Although alexithymia was first observed in subjects with psychosomatic disorders<\/strong>, today it is also related to drug addiction<\/strong>, Eating disorder<\/strong>, psychopathies<\/strong> Y posttraumatic stress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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