Topic: Has anyone got rid of his/her alexithymia?

there seems to be an opinion that there are two different forms of alexithymia, one is essentially genetic, a person is born with it, the other is the result of some early life traumatic experience. If that is indeed correct then it seems logical to assume that if alexithymia (of alexithymia like symptoms) can be "created" as a direct result of trauma then there should also be a way to undo the consequences of that trauma and if not actually "cure" alexithymia in those cases at least reduce its impact. As for genetically induced alexithymia, if it is essentially hard wired into a person I don't see how (at least at present) there is anyway to "unwire it." For myself I've found that I'm become less and less emotional over time, perhaps as a result of mentally giving up pretending to have emotions that I really do not possess.

Has anyone found anything to help with their Alexi, like it always says to go to a therapist etc etc. But has anyone ever done that and had it work? Or just done anything in general to help it?

Has anyone found anything to help with their Alexi, like it always says to go to a therapist etc etc. But has anyone ever done that and had it work? Or just done anything in general to help it?

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. A magnetic field is applied to the brain, and there have been reports of this working. I read an article on the Internet, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/an-experimental-autism-treatment-cost-me-my-marriage/?_r=0 where somebody with autism said he could feel emotions after having this treatment. It sounds too dangerous.

I've heard biofeedback can be helpful in some cases. If the part of your brain that feels emotions isn't totally dead, but has extremely slow wave stimulation only (theta waves - NT people have them right before they fall asleep), you'll have extremely shallow emotions. There are biofeedback techniques to develop faster wave forms in the brain, but I can't vouch for them (and it would only help if you are suffering from slow wave brain activity in your emotion centers).

Jute, I looked up the technical names of the different types of Alexithymia; primary, secondary and organic. There's a paper on the Internet about this; http://www.jpsychopathol.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/08-Messina1.pdf The paper says what you just posted; primary Alexithymia isn't fixable (treatable in some cases, but there's no "cure"), but secondary Alexithymia can be helped (and maybe fixable). Organic Alexithymia refers to brain damage.

Jute, another thing I found interesting about your post was about your becoming "...less emotional over time". I agree with you that if you stop faking emotions, then over time you'll feel less emotional; they are no longer part of your public facing personality. ...but I did look up to see if there is a correlation between age and Alexithymia; there is. There are articles all over the Internet about increasing age correlating to an increased prevalence of Alexithymia in the population (none of the studies I looked at had any data about how age affects an individual). There is a slight bias towards males having Alexithymia as opposed to females (the numbers vary a lot by study). The less educated you are the greater your chance of being Alexithymic; this has to refer to secondary Alexithymia, only.

In the post, "I've heard of treatments.", I referred to theta waves; I meant delta waves, which are the brain waves produced by sleeping people.