Title: Things People Who Can't Express Their Feelings Want You To Know
Headings: Things People Who Can't Express Their Feelings Want You To Know
Things People Who Can't Express Their Feelings Want You To Know
1. People who can’t express their feelings may be very sensitive.
2. Sarcasm might be used instead of conflict.
3. Being vulnerable can be pretty scary.
4. Brushing off feelings is not an uncommon reaction.
5. People dealing with alexithymia may hope anyone close to them understands how they feel.
6. “Unexpressed emotion” can be the result of being hurt in the past.

Content: Things People Who Can't Express Their Feelings Want You To Know
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Things People Who Can't Express Their Feelings Want You To Know
By Nikhita Mahtani and Alexa Mellardo
Updated: Oct. 2, 2019
I don't like feelings. Honestly, if I had a choice, I probably would like to ignore the fact that they exist altogether. Expressing my feelings makes me feel vulnerable, and I worry that telling the people in my life how I feel could drive them away. If you’re in the same boat, you might also have a mental list of things people who can’t express their feelings want their friends, family, and loved ones to know. In order to figure out why you feel this way, I spoke with several experts to uncover what’s causing this behavior. Joshua Klapow, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and host of The Kurre and Klapow Show tells me in an interview for Elite Daily, “The technical term for a difficulty in identifying and describing emotions is alexithymia.” According to ScienceDirect.com, alexithymia is defined as someone having trouble defining and explaining how they feel. Klapow points out that for some people, it's difficult putting anything more complicated than “basic” emotions — sad, happy, and/or mad, for example — into words. " These individuals may feel a broad array of emotions, but when it comes to putting a label on them, the broad array gets [put into these few basic categories]," he says.