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: 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. For other people, the struggle goes further than correctly making their feelings known in the verbal sense. Klapow says, " [They] may not acknowledge or be aware that they are having the feelings themselves. They may interpret, for example, frustration as tightness in their muscles, tension in their heads, or difficulty concentrating, but they do not see the experience as an emotion of frustration." It’s crucial to note the below points should be “qualified as possibilities rather than absolutes,” according to Manhattan psychologist Dr. Joseph Cilona. He tells Elite Daily, “The reasons, issues, and underlying motivations, thoughts, and feelings [for people to hide and/or struggle communicating their emotions] will vary greatly from individual to individual.”