26 December 2018

alexithymia

[ey-lek-suh-thahy-mee-uh]

noun Psychiatry.

– difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotional responses.

Origin of alexithymia

a-6 + Greek léxi(s) speech (see alexia) + -thymia

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Anagram

a Amity helix
My Haiti axle
Hi Italy exam
Hail yeti max
Hey mail taxi

Today’s quote

Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.

– Erich Kastner

On this day

26 December – the second day of the 12 days of Christmas (Western Christianity).

26 December 1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

26 December 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. a secular festival observed by many African Americans from 26 December to 1 January as a celebration of their cultural heritage and traditional values.

26 December 1982 – Time’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.

26 December 1991 – formal dissolution of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) when the Supreme Soviet dissolved itself following the Alma-Ata Protocol of 21 December 1991 and the resignation of President Gorbachev on 25 December 1991.

26 December 2004 – the Boxing Day tsunami originates in Indonesia and spreads across the Indian Ocean killing 230,000 people in 14 countries. It was triggered by a massive earthquake which registered a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3 and caused the entire planet to vibrate by up to 1cm and caused earthquakes as far away as Alaska.