Alexithymia Alexithymia = Emotional blindness; inability to adequately perceive your own feelings and describe them in words Synonyms: infantile personality, pensée operatoire, emotional coldness, less often emotional dyslexia Causes: lacking symbolisation ability due to inadequate early mother-child relationship with the consequence of either insufficient differentiation of sensitivity to feelings (affects), or intrapsychic defense after previously […]
[whohit-Hypochondriacal Disorder Definition Hypochondriacal Disorder = persistent excessive fear of suffering from a serious physical illness, although no organic cause can be found for the largely unspecific physical symptoms. (ICD 10 F45.2) Synonym: DSM-5 “Disease Anxiety Disorder” Etymology: The term hypochondria was derived from the assumption that these were disorders of organs “under the ribs”
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Psychological trauma Psychological trauma A psychological trauma is an event that massively overwhelms the integration of perceptions, feelings and thoughts triggered thereby. By destroying inner cohesion, fear and helplessness are flooding us and override our defenses. (On the other hand, loneliness, worry and tension, if they become permanent, can lead to exhaustion.) Phase progression of a
Zoom Fatigue why video calls can be exhausting Zoom Fatigue: why video calls can be exhausting What is “Zoom Fatigue”? A new term is haunting the media, for the time being mostly in the U.S.: “Zoom Fatigue”. As of April 27, 2020, Google shows 270,000 entries. Until March 15, 2020, the topic did not exist
