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Did you experience a lack of emotional attunement as a child—meaning caregivers consistently failed to notice, mirror, validate or express interest in your inner world? If so, you might struggle to recognize or understand your internal states. You might even feel ashamed of having emotions and not understand the needs they express.

Not knowing how to be interested in yourself or attune to your inner world can lead to a persistent sense of blankness, flatness, disconnection, and feeling invisible to yourself and others. You might even have "perfectly hidden depression," which is a term for appearing successful, cheerful, and emotionally stable on the outside while privately experiencing severe emotional pain because .