alexithymia

The inability to recognize or describe one's own emotions.

• alexithymic/əˌlɛksɪˈθaɪmɪk/(adj)述情障碍的

• suffer from alexithymia
• clinical alexithymia
• alexithymia scale
• mild alexithymia

1. 1.People with alexithymia may feel physically unwell without realizing the cause is emotional distress. (inability to identify emotions)
2. 2.Alexithymia is not the absence of emotions — it's the inability to name or articulate them. (emotional blindness)

• (no direct synonyms — a specific psychological term)

coined by psychotherapist Peter Sifneos in 1973 — from Greek "a-" (without) + "lexis" (word) + "thymos" (emotion/spirit) — without words for emotions