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Alexithymic.
Conversion, and pain disorders.

My story:
Alexithymia
Someone that doesn't understand emotions.

To me it's that I can't "feel" my emotions yet I must control them in social situations.
I once wrote ""we're people that use emotional words that really don't know what they mean".

Really strong emotions come out as "arrrgh" at best.
Hate is really strong.
Love is really strong.
We can't tell them apart.
Emotionally incoherent.
So - Cry when you're ...

Sometimes i get frustrated like right now with the conversion disorder and in case you didn't know it's where you have weakness or paralysis in your body and its caused based upon your amount of stress you have but theirs nothing really wrong and you can regain movement. Anyway my legs our out so i can't walk and it gets really stressful being dependent on people I crawl to get around my mom doesn't like ...

I have a 12 yr old daughter who has a form of somatoform disorder called pain disorder we are going crazy with stress dealing with this in Hawaii and not having any supprot groups here to help us? She has been having severe back spasms and was currently at Stanford medical for 3 months before we had to return home. It so frustrating cause the pain seems real to us but medically all they find ...

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