Alexithymia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, are two distinct psychological conditions, each presenting unique challenges in the lives of adolescents. While complex, the ...

A large, two-year study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and consisting of more than 1,400 adults living with chronic pain across the United States found that people who struggle to ...

When you first enter therapy, it might be surprisingly difficult to answer the question, "How are you feeling?" Answering that question can be even more of a challenge if you deal with what is known ...

A new study reveals that individuals who struggle with identifying and describing emotions may experience increased ...

The researchers related elevated levels of alexithymia in patients with chronic pain with a worse pain severity, physical ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States have found that difficulties in identifying ...

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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 ...

Alexithymia is a multidimensional construct introduced by Nemiah and Sifneos in the early 1970s to identify a group of affective and cognitive characteristics that a number of studies had observed in ...