Does this happen to you? :-/

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How do you find explaining to yourself what you feel when you aren't sure what it is you feel, coming from someone who can't relate it to like something I've felt before like a time or place etc.. I have no other way to explain it than above, hope it makes sense... Like I'm kinda stuck on a simple yes or no choice, simple stuff.. ? Right.. wth please share your thoughts or input .. I mean it makes sense to me what I wrote.. sigh.

Thanks heaps.. I kinda get it. Tbh I'm lost for words that someone actually understood what I wrote. Blessed. Thanks again.

I think one might further differentiate those who are unable to recognize emotions in oneself or others, from those who are able to recognize emotions but whose focus is such that the emotions of others are not often considered and the emotions of self are not often aroused.

For example, I have no problem being angry, but often pass an external stimuli through a process of analysis before it touches that which angers. Other times it seems to go directly to an anger response. One might experience reflex anger or considered anger, but there is also the possibility that some stimuli that usually produce anger may not do so.

For those situations where no emotional reflex is triggered, it might seem that there is difficulty in identifying the emotion, but consideration should be given that not every situation gives rise to an emotional response.

Advertising has been very successful in getting people to associate emotional responses with products. If one is consciously aware that this is being done in a particular situation, this awareness can diminish the emotional response or even cause it to fail to be evoked.

Aspergers may provide a better ability to resist the reflex triggering of emotions. This could be considered as different from the inability to recognize emotions.

I’m not understanding the question.

I think the OP is saying he has difficulty in explaining how he feels to others.

I certainly have experienced that all my life.

Just for being male, I was expected to be numb. When I tried to get healthier, I would use a list of emotions to read through and pick the closest match. I learned to associate my speedometer reading with anger when it was higher than usual.

My therapist gave me a list of words to choose from when she would ask me how I was feeling. I would pick what felt to be the closest matches at the time. Even then it was hard to explain how I felt.

I can totally relate to the question. Yes, I find it difficult to describe my feelings. Its probably re-enforced due to having limited number of coping strategies, so I jump right to, 'This is what I did last time to feel better'. Trying to figure out what I wanted out of a situation and how I feel about the actually outcome is difficult.

Yes, right down your thoughts! Write, journal, blog, post, type, draw cartoons, do what ever works for you!

I think my daughter has this and its a condition called alexithymia, inability to express thoughts and feelings. She can rarely tell me what she thinks or feels. Can’t express socially. We get better with it via the iPad, but its a long haul.