Alexithymia
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Emotionless: Alexithymia?
I'm told alexithymia is a condition related to an inability to express one's emotions as a result of not understanding them. Those who have the condtion usually appear very stoic and tend not to react in what would be considered a "normal" way, and they probably won't understand when others do react "normally." That is pretty much the extent of my knowledge on the subject, though the research I...
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OBJECTIVE Whether or not psychological factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of alopecia areata (AA) is a controversial issue. AA has had a tendency to be associated with high avoidance in attachment relationships, high alexithymic characteristics, and poor social support. Some studies have suggested that personality characteristics might modulate individual susceptibility to AA. T...
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The association between alexithymia and sociodemographic variables is not well understood. Previous studies using the current 20-item and previous 26-item versions of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) have shown inconsistent associations with age, sex, socioeconomic status, and years of education. We tested 380 subjects from the community stratified equally across sex, five age groups, and th...
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Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is one of the most frequent rheumatologic conditions, its main characteristic being chronic diffuse musculoskeletal pain and hyperalgesia, likely due to altered central processing of pain (1). Fibromyalgia symptoms are not restricted to pain. Besides the painful setting, these patients often complain of fatigue, sleep disturbances, morning stiffness, and paresthesia ...
متن کاملAlexithymia in male infertility.
The continuing confrontation with the thoughts and feelings surrounding an unfulfilled wish for a child makes coping very difficult. There is empirical evidence that, in medical illnesses associated with stress and loss of quality of life, patients react with alexithymia, which means a difficulty to communicate emotions. In this study we compared 84 infertile men with a group of 96 healthy men ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.33.4.1057