The current study extended prior work on the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS), a unidimensional measure of some men’s limitations in expressing emotion that results from gender-based socialization informed by the masculine norm of restrictive ...
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Normative male alexithymia — The Mix Support Community
Bit of a weird one but I came across this term in a YouTube video, and wanted to see if y'all relate. More on community.themix.org.uk
'Naturally' toxically masculine - What to do?
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I don't talk about my feelings and when pressed find that I can't (writing this is incredibly difficult for me)
Beyond professional help of a therapist/counsellor, you can practice this. Just take a few minutes out of your day and write down how you're feeling. Even if it starts out with you writing 'nothing' or 'angry' or something like that every day, you'll be training yourself to think about it, and with time, maybe you'll write down something else. Or maybe you'll elaborate 'i'm angry, because some asshole cut me off in traffic'.
Alexithymia- anyone else struggle with this?
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