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Psychological Effects of COVID-19
Published in Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga, The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
Binish Khaliq, Mehvish Azam, Ahmed Akrem, M. Yasin Ashraf, Sumera Anwar, Arif Malik, Samina Yaqoob, Hawa Ze Jaafar
In addition to psychological disorders, people faced cognitive and emotional disorders during COVID-19 outbreak. People with alexithymia have ordinarily high levels of depression, apprehension problems and psychosomatic problems as compared to non-alexithymic during COVID-19 situation [46]. It was noted that a high level of depression is due to the alexithymia, that was reliable to previous research on alexithymia and depressing feelings [47]. Alexithymia is an emotional disorder and appearance of scarcity disorder that is described by condensed capability to recognize and expressing the emotions [48]. People affected in alexithymia feel difficult to avail social support [49] and may develop harsh interpersonal lifestyle [50], also fail to identify their emotions or to respond to other’s emotions [51].
Autism
Published in Nichola Tyler, Anne Sheeran, Working with Autistic People in the Criminal Justice and Forensic Mental Health Systems, 2022
Recent research has explored the association between autism and alexithymia – the inability to recognise and describe one’s own emotions (e.g., Kinnaird et al., 2019). Alexithymia is neither exclusive to autism, nor apparent in all autistic adults. Where present, alexithymia limits the ability to distinguish and identify cognitions and bodily sensations (both positive and negative), and to translate those feelings and thoughts into a coherent narrative using a precise and subtle vocabulary, in turn increasing the difficulty for others in understanding what the autistic person is feeling. Such misunderstanding can lead to a breakdown in communication and the potential for increased agitation.
Introduction
Published in Anna Branagan, Melanie Cross, Stephen Parsons, Language for Behaviour and Emotions, 2020
Anna Branagan, Melanie Cross, Stephen Parsons
Practitioners who work with young people with SEMH often notice that they use a limited range of emotion words. The young people might be limited to very simple terms, such as sad, happy, angry, when their typically developing peers have developed well beyond this. The reasons for this are complex, and it may be that some young people with SEMH and SLCN also have a condition called Alexithymia. Alexithymia is a condition in which a person is unable to identify or talk about emotions. Hobson et al (2019) explore in some detail the causality of Alexithymia, but one possible cause is that it has a linguistic basis. There is still much to learn about this condition, but the same authors report that linguistic input can improve emotion recognition in deaf children.
The association between eveningness and autistic traits: Mediating effects of depression and insomnia
Published in Chronobiology International, 2023
Ellie Harris, Richard Carciofo
Furthermore, autism is associated with significantly higher rates of psychiatric illnesses (Leyfer et al. 2006). Eaves and Ho (2008) found that 77% of their sample of autistic young adults had comorbid diagnoses, such as depression and bipolar disorder. However, in considering potential mechanisms involved in the high prevalence of psychiatric illness in autistic individuals, the associations between chronotype and mental health in the autistic population has been under researched, although there is evidence that sleep may be a mediator. Türkoğlu et al. (2020) found that higher autistic behaviour scores were associated with eveningness, and sleep disturbances were a mediating factor between eveningness and autistic symptom severity. Also, adults with diagnoses of ADHD or autism were more likely to have an evening chronotype, and to have poorer sleep (Migliarese et al. 2020). Furthermore, Ahn et al. (2021) investigated inter-relationships between chronotype, depression, and alexithymia. Alexithymia is characterised by having difficulty describing feelings, difficulty distinguishing bodily sensations and feelings, and a tendency to focus on external experiences rather than internal experiences (Sifneos 1973). Ahn et al. (2021) found that eveningness was associated with alexithymia and that this relationship was mediated by depression symptoms. These findings are particularly important as it has been shown that there are high rates of alexithymia in autistic individuals (Kinnaird et al. 2019), so it opens the possibility that depression could also mediate the relationship between morningness-eveningness and autistic traits.
Hypnotic analgesia in chronic pain: role of psychopathology and alexithymia
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2023
Chronic pain and increased perception of pain intensity have often been associated with alexithymia (Aaron et al., 2019)—literally, “no word for mood.” This was first described by Sifneos in 1972 as a cognitive-affective disturbance that affects the identification and expression of emotions (Sifneos, 1996). Individuals with alexithymia have a reality-based cognitive style with difficulty experiencing imagination and emotions (Shipko, 1982). Alexithymia is also described as a set of interpersonal and communications traits that range from 1–8% in the general population to up to 30% in medical patients (Faryna et al., 1986). In addition to psychosomatic conditions, alexithymia has been found to be associated with various psychiatric disorders, with a prevalence that varies according to the type of psychiatric disorder and the type of assessment tool used (Taylor & Bagby, 2004).
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: a possible correlation with obsessive compulsive disorder and alexithymia
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Banuhan Şahin, Serap Özçetinkaya Erdoğan, Gizem Cura Şahin, Pervin Karlı, Osman Fadıl Kara, Şafak Hatırnaz, Andrea Tinelli
The OCD is an anxiety disorder that is relatively common in pregnant women compared to the general population, and its onset or progression seems to be associated to pregnancy (Forray et al. 2010). The most commonly cited concerns about perinatal obsessions were those associated with the baby's postpartum well-being. It has been shown that OCD has negative effects on foetal growth, which may manifest as low birth weight due to preterm birth (Uguz et al. 2015). Uguz et al. (2011) concluded that depression and anxiety experienced in pregnant women worsened OCD symptoms, while Vasconcelos et al. (2007) reported that mothers with OCD experience hyperemesis gravidarum more frequently during pregnancy and use greater amounts of antiemetics for treatment. In our investigation, it was found that pregnant women with severe NVP in the first trimester of pregnancy showed high-grade OCD symptoms compared to pregnant women with mild or moderate NVP, and with the increasing of the NVP severity, also MOCQ scores increased. Although alexithymia is thought to be mostly seen in psychosomatic patients, its association has been shown with many psychiatric diseases such as depression, anxiety, OCD, alcohol-substance use disorders, and eating disorders (Grabe et al. 2008; Karukivi et al. 2015). Additionally, its connection with OCD has been already reported and similar results were showed in studies on pregnant women (Robinson and Freeston 2014; Tang et al. 2018).