Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged. Thanks, as always, to all of our listeners, new and long term.

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So I'm going to talk about a topic today that I've been hearing a lot of the last,

oh, this seems to be more of a topic that people are asking questions about. And it's the whole concept of Alexa Fymia.

So basically, I think there's people walking around us every day who can solve really

complex problems, build companies, raise children, perform surgery, fly airplanes, lead

organizations, survive, you know, enormous

adversity. But you ask them a simple question. Like, what are you feeling right now? They freeze.

And it's not because they're lying, it's not because they're being manipulative. It's not because they don't care.

I think it's because somewhere along the line, the bridge between emotion and language

collapsed. And there may be a lot of you guys, they have a good chance that people listening, you know, struggle with yourselves or love someone who does or were raised by somebody who's emotionally disconnected in this exact way.

And I'm not coming from perspective of trying to blame people, but just understanding something that is profoundly human, essentially, how can a person become disconnected from their own emotional world?

Because many people are not emotionally unavailable by choice.

Sometimes it could be as a result of being hurt,

afraid of being vulnerable. I think some people were never taught to emotionally exist safely

in the first place.

And, you know, I did an episode on about social media rewiring the brain,

because, you know, with the constant simulation, the algorithm, the scrolling, the dopamine chasing, emotional disconnection, I think, in some ways, may be coming normalized.

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