There are no words.

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Alexithymia, or 'no words for feelings', refers to an impairment of the ability to identify and communicate one's emotional state, in addition to diminished affect-related fantasy and imagery. A recent study by Mantani et al. reported reduced activation of the posterior cingulate cortex in people with alexithymia when they imagined a future happy

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Lauren Bosworth: How far are you and Stephen away from each other?
Lauren Conrad: Like, five minutes.
Lauren Bosworth: Really?
Lauren Bosworth: I think you guys are gonna get married.
Lauren Conrad: I think we're gonna be best friends.
Lauren Bosworth: That stuff happens, though, you know, like.
Lauren Conrad: I don't wanna marry Stephen.
Lauren Bosworth: Why? He's cute, you'd have pretty babies.
Jen: You would have pretty babies, your babies would be like the popular people at school.
Lauren Conrad: That's sweet.
Jen: They would.

--Laguna Beach: The Real O.C.

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Wow.

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uh, alexithymia sounds kind of like a diagnosis of the condition of being alive.

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Like most emotional problems, it's probably one of those "severe case of the human condition" things.

[so_gracefully]

it's very 1870. tres chic!

borderline personality disorder = 'being a human female with basic emotional depth'
pms = 'perfectly natural and cycled hormone fluctuation'
(those are my two favorite ways that medicine and society tell me i am abnormal and ill just for existing)