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Originally Posted by nowheretohide
It has mostly to do with being very out of touch with your own emotions, being unable to describe your emotions if asked, being unable to tell what exactly is causing your emotions and why, and so forth. The way I understand it, it basically means you are extremely disconnected from your own emotions and generally emotionally stunted because at some point you "shut down" your emotions as a defense mechanism. And since you're really out of touch with your own emotions you have problems with emotionally relating to others because you are kind of emotionally "dumb" and emotionally disconnected, which makes non-superficial relationships very hard.
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60 Points - Few to no alexthymia traits.
The part of your post that I quoted above really sums it up well. I don't think that that's really related at all to AvPD, although I can see how it could be co-morbid (then again, I think pretty much everything can be co-morbid with something else!).
Personally, I think with AvPD it isn't that you (people who don't have something else which would inhibit their ability to be in touch with their emotions) you out of touch with your emotions... it's just that I think a lot of AvPD is simply avoiding them - so not being willing to share them and trying to hide them. I don't think that really inhibits feeling them or recognizing what they are.
But having to deal with both, I can only imagine how horrendous that would be!!
