This past week I've been spiraling more and more into depression and it's become more and more difficult for me to identify my own emotions. I went to the dentist a week ago and a doctor there asked me "how do you feel?" and the on-the-spot response I could think of was "I feel bored."

But I didn't feel bored, I just said the closest thing I could think of in the moment. Am I supposed to say "I don't know" when I'm asked questions like this? I don't want to annoy anyone by providing unnecessarily difficult answers to simple questions, and I'm worried that "I don't know" isn't a very satisfying answer.

Hi all, I don’t have alexithymia and only just learned of it recently, but it seems to explain the struggles I feel in my relationship.

I want to bring it up to my partner but I am afraid to come across as diagnosing her, or blaming her for our problems, or shirking responsibility (all things she has accused me of due to me trying desperately to understand her lack of emotional depth and empathy).

I unfortunately first thought she had narcissism or extreme avoidant attachment, then autism… but alexithymia fits the best. She is just so lost when I speak about wanting connection or to emotionally share. In couple therapy she stares blankly at the therapist and later tells me we are both trying to dig for things in her that are not there (emotions). She also has no inner voice, no fantasy life, is very concrete, and had to read a book to learn how to validate my erratic feelings as she used to just try to convince me they are not based in reality.

It has been such a struggle to see eye to eye and I am feeling a little hopeful that if alexithymia matches her experience we can try to work with that. If not, at least I can feel reassured she’s not abusing me, she simply has a very different way of experiencing the world.

All this to say, can anyone share the most helpful way someone (especially a partner) suggested to them they may be living with this? Or, what backfired completely? thank you for any suggestions.

Hello, I'm a simple guy from Russia, I'm sorry that the president

He's doing this, there's nothing I can do. over time, I realized that something was wrong with me, and I started communicating with neural networks and found that:

1. I don't have complicated emotions. empathy (I can imagine how a person feels, but it's not instinctive. imagine a video where a person is punched in the groin, so I won't feel anything), shame and conscience, disgust (I'm disgusted by pungent smells, but it's more of a defense mechanism of the body), morality (I created it based on other people's strange questions), and I'm very afraid of being abandoned (in in terms of love), although I don't have a girlfriend.

2. The fact that my brain doesn't stop thinking is a stream of thoughts. at the same time, I think outside the box, and when the template is enough, I use the action template.

3. I have a good memory. compared to others, I have a very good memory, when others cannot memorize topics, I literally memorize what the teacher says, and I can retell it to him with his own examples in the next lesson (without memorizing!). I have excellent spatial memory. And my thoughts are like my own voice in my head, which I can change at will. Okay, I'm sorry for the mistakes, I wrote through a translator. I hope there will be those people who will at least leave a comment. I'm lonely and very bored. disclaimer: this post wants to find out how many people with such personality disorders are sitting here, all the information is taken from my personal life and communication with neural networks.

And the resources were all very general.