This is not to say I don’t have emotions. I can tell a negative emotion from a positive one. People crying, yes I know they are sad. But I struggle more with the in-between… so how am I to tell someone how I’m feeling if I don’t know what I’m feeling. Don’t get this confused with a personality disorder, I do feel emotions very deeply but the problem , as I said is, identifying them. Is this why the docs have been confused over the years? I read that emotional dysregulation can happen in both autism and ADHD, and doesn’t necessarily mean bipolar.
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Also have some of the results from the assessment from the questionnaire . it states I could be on the border of being clinically depressed, and scored high for anxiety
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for me it’s because of my autism. I have, same like you, problems identifying emotions.
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I have very little emotions, my pdoc said I have negative symptoms
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I can tell too but can’t feel them
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I would like to be able to pick apart every little element that makes up the whole of how I’m feeling and thinking, of how my mind works.
Then, I would be able to give each of these tiny pieces names like “mood”, “formal thought”, “affect” and tell when they change. Then I’ll find out why they do so. Then I’d be able to fix them.
But that obviously never has happened and never will, so I just write down what I’m thinking about sometimes and it’s usually enough to guess how I feel and why.
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It’s called alexithymia and it’s pretty common, in adhd, autism, personality disorders, and plenty of other issues
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I am realizing my emotions resemble Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
My emotions have me fearing feeling unbearable pain and and exhaustion and death
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