Alexithymia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments
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Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.

Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.

  • FranziaEnglish
    4•10 months ago

    Extreme bouts of gaming can exacerbate this emotional numbness, FYI.

    • @Haui@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4•10 months ago

      Here‘s a source for this:

      “In the long term, if you look at someone’s brain while they’re playing video games, and if you look at the brain of someone who’s played a lot of video games for a long period, there is a numbness and a reduced activation of the emotional processing center of your brain,”

      https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2023/02/24/adam-holman-part-3

      I dont know how reliable it is but I wanted to at least know if there were sources.