here in my location when a person cant identify their emotions and cant express their emotions its not a dissociative problem... its called lack of affect... it comes with many different mental physical and normal situations and can also be part of things like medication side effects, poor diet, lack of sleep.... gosh I could go on and on with all the different things this problem is associated with in my location.
here we have many great ways to learn about emotions and how to express them....
just about every yoga, meditation or sports/ leisure activity class teaches how to pay attention to ones body and emotions and how to express them in appropriate ways...
head start/ preschool and pre-k all teach children about emotions and how to recognize them and express them.
go to any elementary, jr high and high school and you can get great fliers and pamphlets on how these school levels are dealing with teaching their students about emotions and how to recognize their emotions and express them in appropriate ways.
work places usually have work related code of conduct orientations and HR office where people who work can talk to someone and learn how to recognize their emotions and express them appropriately on the job.
all treatment providers in my location are also great resources for being able to help someone to recognize their emotions and learn how to express them in appropriate ways, as do any medical treatment providers....
they all usually start by handing out the rights and responsibilities paperwork then hand out a paper or poster with all these pictures of faces in various states of emotions (if you google the words "emotions drawings" you will find many illustrations of the various papers with this)
from there they work on things like keeping a journal of when you notice you have felt these emotions and how you expressed them.
my standard suggestion is to re read any of your past posts here, when someone posts online they usually do contain information like how they felt and expressed their feelings about what ever the person is posting about. this may help you to see that you do feel emotions and know how to express them in appropriate ways during those times when you do feel you lack emotions and are having problems with whether or not you know how to express them.
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