Thoughts on this good people? :-)
Thoughts on this good people? :-)
Yes, mostly and no. We learn as we live, so its impossible to look back in hindsight and say things would be otherwise now. But things I can find difficult now wouldn't have been when I was younger, I felt as if those things didn't affect me as much.
I was thinking about it like this yesterday, you can have a hot bath. Some days you are more sensitive to getting into the hot water but the tempreture can be the same. Really it is variation to approaching a situation.I have discovered this thing where I can just switch off discomfort, but I have to consciously register this as 'the water is hot but i have done this before' I think what happens when I experience this is that those rational boundaries break down and any sensitivity is less exaggerated.
Trauma I tend to lump with mistreatment in various contexts, not of my own making (as often). The benefit of this is that I have seen many facets for people.
We live in a time when having a diagnosis might appear a trend or advantageous. To know who you are, don't you already to some extent, its just that the diagnosis is affirmation. I think that may be very differnt how people accept that from a young or later age. Perhaps having an early diaognosis releases one from much of trauma?
I also have I dentified this side issue that not everyone wants, is happy with or chooses their diognsis. How well diaognosis is accepted can also itself be a point of trauma.
I have discovered this thing where I can just switch off discomfort, but I have to consciously register this as 'the water is hot but i have done this before
Funnily enough I was practicing somethine very similar this week as I had several dentist visits including root canal and a crown (plus cleaning and some filling replacements) and I'm not exactly a fan of the dentist.
I find when I am going to be in the chair for a lengthy time and it is going to be quite unpleasant with your head tilted right back, mouth wide open and various bits jammed in your gob while they work - then it helps to be able to dissociate with the sensations coming from your mouth.
It is especially relevant when they are doing the canalis in the top row of teeth as the files they use feel like they are going up into your brain. I guess it is not far off.
I learned this back when I learned meditation that you can compartmentalise pain / discomfort and swith off its ability to hurt you. In essence it becomes just an informational input and you can stop your knee jerk reaction to pain.
It only works for me in shortish bursts - maybe 20 mins of so max. For longer procedures like a root canal session then I need a break in the middle to catch my breath so to speak then can do it again for another 10 mins.
It has helped me a lot in the past with a few workplace accidents where I could clean out a wound on my own for example.
It does show that the mind has more control over our senses than we may realise.
I have discovered this thing where I can just switch off discomfort, but I have to consciously register this as 'the water is hot but i have done this before
Funnily enough I was practicing somethine very similar this week as I had several dentist visits including root canal and a crown (plus cleaning and some filling replacements) and I'm not exactly a fan of the dentist.
I find when I am going to be in the chair for a lengthy time and it is going to be quite unpleasant with your head tilted right back, mouth wide open and various bits jammed in your gob while they work - then it helps to be able to dissociate with the sensations coming from your mouth.
It is especially relevant when they are doing the canalis in the top row of teeth as the files they use feel like they are going up into your brain. I guess it is not far off.
I learned this back when I learned meditation that you can compartmentalise pain / discomfort and swith off its ability to hurt you. In essence it becomes just an informational input and you can stop your knee jerk reaction to pain.
It only works for me in shortish bursts - maybe 20 mins of so max. For longer procedures like a root canal session then I need a break in the middle to catch my breath so to speak then can do it again for another 10 mins.
It has helped me a lot in the past with a few workplace accidents where I could clean out a wound on my own for example.
It does show that the mind has more control over our senses than we may realise.
I have heard about people being able to switch off embarrassment.
I suspect this is just a high powered form of masking although I have learned to be able to do this by switching off the "do I really give a cluck?" element of the interaction.
When you can stop worring about what they think about you because you don't care about it then you can achieve a lot. I've had to use this when disciplining my team (who were taking the mickey out of a customer), when having to give a presentation to several hundred staff or when trying to cheer up a small child with silly antics in front of a woman I was trying to chat up.
I learned this partly through management training but also with role play with my therapist.
The hypersensitivity part is definatey a feature of my autism. I have heard about people being able to switch off embarrassment. I'm not sure if I can switch off pain, or every time, also as when things/feelings happen it's usually quite tempremental so the science is yet to be proven.
