Failure to understand, interpret, and elaborate ones emotional experiences. There is a link between dissociation and Alexithymia. There is an inability to interpret situational and internal triggers that are be processed without introspection. Thus, emotional threshold is high to a point where feelings aren't easily manageable. Individual feels emotions are extreme and unpredictable because of their inability to process situations for self-representations. 

This is also common in Autism Spectrum Disorder and can contribute to difficulty self-regulating emotions, since one needs to be able to identify the emotions in order to regulate them effectively.

Alexithymia 

- Some report that their negative affective states can worsen their motor symptoms
- alexithymia
- Experiencing autonomic arousal in the absence of a perceived negative affect

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How Abnormalities Interact to Produce FND Symptoms

Drane, D. L., Fani, N., Hallett, M., Khalsa, S. S., Perez, D. L., & Roberts, N. A. (2021). A framework for understanding the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder. CNS Spectrums, 26(6), 555-561–561. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852920001789

A framework for understanding the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder

Emotion Correlated Symptoms of FND

Individuals experience  many attention difficulties
- Attentional perseveration
- Difficulty attending to unaffected body parts
- Disruptions to sustained and selective attention
- Inefficient or impaired attentional shifting
- Involuntary attentional biases

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