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When Alexithymia Is Mistaken for Emotional Unavailability

I have alexithymia and when my girlfriend asks how I'm feeling I genuinely don't know but she thinks I'm being emotionally withholding.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The inability to name internal experiences gets interpreted as unwillingness to share them.

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