Topic: New to this and confused more than ever

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New to this and confused more than ever
25.12.2016 by Cynthia

I scored surprisingly high on the test. I didn't even know this condition existed before tonight. I was laying in bed feeling more confused and overwhelmed but numb, and I realized that I feel and describe and process emotions and feelings so differently from others. My girlfriend always tells me to tell her about how I'm feeling about how I'm doing because I don't open up enough, but I don't know what to say; I'm stressed, unhappy, depressed, anxious, confused, empty, numb, I don't know how to respond to it. I've been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, PTSD, manic depression (my therapist is straying to think it's more along the lines of borderline personality disorder), and schizoaffective disorder. I'm not quite sure if any of these have any correlation to Alexithymia, but latley I've been under even more pressure (replalsing into anorexia and other self destructive tendencies), I've been do detached and numb but I've always been that way. I'm just so confused as to what to do now. Maybe it's not Alexithymia? Maybe something else I'm not sure. This lack of being able to properly process and describe how I'm feeling, if I really am at all, has made even my therapist question me possibly being psychotic.

YOU CAN'T!!!!
25.12.2016 by DXS

That's the problem. YOU CAN'T!

I'm female. I have been on this before, only had a BOYFRIEND who wanted me to "tell him how I felt." So, I made stuff up, stuff I thought he wanted to hear. That was when I was 22. I'm 61 now.....

UHG
25.12.2016 by Cynthia

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING!!!

Beofre realizing that there maybe something off with me I did that all the time and I considered it normal, but my girlfriend says otherwise. I mean I try to tell her how I feel but I don't even know what to say so I tell her what she wants to hear. It's so inconvenient?? And frustrating??

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