Sort Your Emotions is an educational reference for emotions — what they are, why we have them from an evolutionary standpoint, and practical strategies for working with them rather than against them.
It's designed first for people who experience alexithymia — a reduced ability to identify and describe emotions — but anyone who has ever struggled to name what they're feeling will find it useful.
Alexithymia is a dimensional trait — not a diagnosis — describing difficulty identifying and describing one's own emotional states. It exists on a spectrum and is more common than most people realize, appearing across many populations including (but not limited to) autistic people and trauma survivors.
Designing for alexithymia first means being explicit, concrete, and structured where other resources are vague or impressionistic. It also benefits everyone else.
This site is an educational resource, not a clinical tool. It does not provide therapy, diagnosis, or medical advice. The regulation strategies presented here are general approaches many people find helpful — they are not prescribed treatments.
If you are in crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.
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