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Are alexithymia and emotional neglect common in CPTSD (slrpnk.net)
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Hi all

I've recently learned more about these concepts: Alexithymia being emotional blindness, and emotional neglect resulting from how I grew up in my childhood.

I often (every week) find myself completely exhausted, painful, and often vomiting every morning. This seems to happen more frequently and intensely when I'm going to work/training.

I'm trying to find a way to be aware of any emotions I might feel and try to place them before getting overwhelmed. But often it still results in a shutdown basically.

Anyone have tips on how to deal with this?

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[–] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 4 points 1 year ago

Cool, now I get what my therapist was doing.

I can add another example:

My go to term for negative feelings is "frustrated". In therapy I often had to break this down (which was surprisingly hard...) to see what kind of feeling "frustrated" actually means in these cases. Like I was "frustrated" with something my spouse did but I actually felt sad and left out but I didn't realize that I felt that way at this moment.

The body mapping also helps a lot like feelings of connection and community give me a warm bodily sensation in my chest and make me very teary eyed meanwhile strong negative emotions like fear of abandonment gives me a very uncomfortable pulling sensation in my finger tips, this is also a warning sign of an imminent shutdown.