Apparently I am supposed to physically feel my emotions and respond to them instead of not knowing what happens to them most of the time which indicates that I am partially emotionally detached according to a scale of “woah excitement is in my fingers” to “my response to you asking me something about myself is I don’t know”

Discovering feelings in the body

The other way you know if you are emotionally numb is if you don’t have oodles of people that both hate and love you, that is because the numbeness is a gift that allows you to protect yourself from too much dislike, just gotta learn to get comfortable with dislike in order to maximize the amount of people that like you.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    7·
    8 days ago

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35329.The_Body_Remembers

    It is now thought that people who have been traumatized hold an implicit memory of traumatic events in their brains and bodies. That memory is often expressed in the symptomatology of posttraumatic stress disorder-nightmares, flashbacks, startle responses, and dissociative behaviors. In essence, the body of the traumatized individual refuses to be ignored. While reducing the chasm between scientific theory and clinical practice and bridging the gap between talk therapy and body therapy, Rothschild presents principles and non-touch techniques for giving the body its due. With an eye to its relevance for clinicians, she consolidates current knowledge about the psychobiology of the stress response both in normally challenging situations and during extreme and prolonged trauma. This gives clinicians from all disciplines a foundation for speculating about the origins of their clients’ symptoms and incorporating regard for the body into their practice. The somatic techniques are chosen with an eye to making trauma therapy safer while increasing mind-body integration. Packed with engaging case studies, The Body Remembers integrates body and mind in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. It will appeal to clinicians, researchers, students, and general readers.

    • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      The therapist I’m seeing now is big on this kind of thing. Not so much as the OP where we’re trying to feel emotions in the body, but more that we’re trying to feel the reactions and bigger emotions in the context of time. As in “How old is this part of you that feels this?”

      It’s very helpful, in my opinion, because it’s allowing me to heal parts of myself that suffered the trauma, and it’s allowing the PTSD to feel less like a jump scare and more like an understanding.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        21·
        8 days ago

        That kind of sounds like an blend of approaches, or maybe Gestalt theory. Is it working for you? apologies, I’m in the middle of laundry.