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The article doesn't characterize the disorder as being without emotions. It quotes researchers as saying that while sufferers display the physical signs of emo
by jazzyb 11y ago
The article doesn't characterize the disorder as being without emotions. It quotes researchers as saying that while sufferers display the physical signs of emotions, there is some sort of breakdown either in the expression (as you mentioned) or self-awareness of emotions.
- greatthanks 11y agoThe title refers to the inability of feeling emotions - which is the same as "being without emotions".
- nostrademons 11y agoAlexithymia literally means "no words for emotions", and the article makes it clear that people with the condition do feel emotions, they just lack conscious awareness and the ability to verbalize their emotions. The title refers to the experience from the point of view of the subject - being outside of their conscious awareness, it is as if emotions do not exist for them, even though they still trigger the appropriate physical responses.