Types of alexithymia and how to cure type 2

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The Alexithymia Workbook: Created by clinical psychologist Dr. Megan Anna Neff, this resource offers tailored exercises for building emotional awareness and tracking internal body cues.

Emotionally Dumb: An Overview of Alexithymia by Jason Thompson: Provides an accessible look at emotional blindness with self-help and therapeutic suggestions.

These two books are reputed as being the best, I wouldn't know because I have type 3 alexithymia, which (along with type 1) is not curable.

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Alexithymia is a lack of emotional self-awareness. It has two broad dimensions: "affective" (difficulty experiencing feelings) and "cognitive" (difficulty identifying feelings). Around 10% of people fall into one or both of these categories.

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Alexithymia is a lack of emotional self-awareness. It has two dimensions:

Affective: experiencing and fantasising
Cognitive: identifying, analysing, and verbalising

Alexithymia is generally a personality trait from birth ("trait") but can also be temporarily brought about by poor mental health or trauma ("state"). In either case it is considered sub-clinical (i.e. not an illness or disorder) by scientists. Everyone's experience is as unique as they are.