I thought I'd share a tool that you could use to understand

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other people's emotions.

http://atlasofemotions.org

Dr Paul Ekman is a really famous psychologist; you can find out more about him here: https://www.paulekman.com/about/paul-ekman/

Do you think this tool is also helpful to understand your own emotions?

I don't have trouble understanding my own or other people's emotions.

So other people's emotions follow this scheme: there is a trigger (which is for example: a friend gets angry with them). then there's the emotion felt in the body (which could be one of the 5), they interpret immediately what they are feeling and why, then immediately (or after some time) they respond to the friend who got angry with them.

How would you describe the scheme of an alexithymic person instead, folowing that example?

when you feel an emotion do you notice it immediately or after some time?

what's the thought process that leads you to figure out what emotion you feel?Do you ask youself any questions? If so, which ones?

what's the thought process that leads you to figure out why you feel that way? Do you ask youself any questions? If so, which ones?

Is the reason why you feel a certain way unconscious while you're having an emotion? Or is it conscious but in the midst of the emotional reaction and the chaos that it provokes inside you, you find it hard to find the words to describe it?

when you finally figure out how you feel, do you respond to the other person?

↑ You need to ask those questions of an appropriately-trained and licensed mental-health practitioner, and not a bunch of strangers on a social website.

^ not everyone has access to one of those

Emotions are natural to me so it's pretty hard to explain how I feel emotions to an alexithimic person (word spelt wrong I know, I don't know how to pronounce it).

not useful at all, the graphics in motion and the rapid switching of pages, etc was overwhelming. I have very poor visual processing and very poor audio processing. Plain charts and simple printed information are the way I am best able to interact with the world. I always feel disappointed when I see some new link with videos or flashy graphics that fade and appear randomly, have music, voice overs or other stuff that messes with my ability to understand. I feel as if I must be missing out on a great deal but I simply can not access that stuff and make sense of it. So frustrating. Not a tool I can use at all. Story of my life. No wonder I have always been confused. I did not learn of my sensory processing issues until neurological tests at age 68. At least now I understand why I have always struggled to understand so much that seems perfectly clear to others.

I like the idea.
Yet it's too basic... At least from my point of view.

Also from where I came from, it won't work that way.
Not only due to more complex and multilayered contexts, but also sometimes the reality works backwards, multidimensionally unspoken...

On top of that, my personality and reactions -- not as straight forward, inconsistent, conflicting, or illogical.
So it also doesn't work well with me.



I say... It needs more data. Likely billions worth of that, but don't get too ahead.
Also the interfaces.
Not everyone has the adequate equipment to run the animations, nor everyone could visually follow the whole thing.

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The tool is not helping, but it also seems to be too fancy to run with my software. In the early stages of self-exploration, I had a paper list of emotions I'd read over to pick out a match. Anger was sometimes easier to identify, because it made the speedometer on my car read ten higher than usual.