Apparently I am supposed to physically feel my emotions and respond to them instead of not knowing what happens to them most of the time which indicates that I am partially emotionally detached according to a scale of “woah excitement is in my fingers” to “my response to you asking me something about myself is I don’t know”
Discovering feelings in the body
The other way you know if you are emotionally numb is if you don’t have oodles of people that both hate and love you, that is because the numbeness is a gift that allows you to protect yourself from too much dislike, just gotta learn to get comfortable with dislike in order to maximize the amount of people that like you.
I was diagnosed with Alexithymia when I was diagnosed with autism. I have a very difficult time with emotions and emotional regulation. I’m trying to learn workarounds or something but my therapist isn’t too familiar with alexithymia…sigh.