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Re: Is this another way therapy rewires brains?

Posted by Dinah on November 17, 2008, at 17:46:53

In reply to Re: Is this another way therapy rewires brains?, posted by Daisym on November 15, 2008, at 20:36:31

> What is also very interesting is that people who have very sensitive nervous systems can have brains that react like people who have been traumatized. It makes sense in that they are assaulted just by being in the world - not on purpose - but their wiring tells them to self-protect and shut down and all the things that people with abuse in their histories do.

That's really interesting, Daisy. Thank you for posting it. My therapist never pushed me to believe I'd been abused. But he was always clearly perplexed by the fact that the set of problems I have are generally associated with a history of abuse. While I've always thought that my overly sensitive nervous system, perhaps coupled with a couple of rather explosive and unpredictable parents, was more than enough on its own. Hence my constant references to a nervous system like an overly inbred cocker spaniel (no offense to cockers, it could be any dog) as my main presenting problem.

But I shouldn't expect him to understand. He has the nervous system of a particularly phlegmatic Newfie. That's why he's such a darn good fit for me.

My emotional/rational split has often seemed to me to be way more a left brain/right brain split than an age related one. While my therapist sees my emotional self as younger than my actual age, and refers to my difficulties with the other therapists as coming from the disconnect between the age of the person they see and the age of the person they hear. Or something like that. I tend to see it more in terms of, well, emotional/rational. When I first gained access to that part of me, and even when I really immerse myself in it now, words are very hard for me. It almost seems like I need the words to be provided to me when I'm in that place, by my rational self. So that if it's something I haven't thought about before in words, the words just aren't there. I'm reduced to gestures and garbled words.

> And Dinah - don't tell Rod. But he talked about the "brain in the stomach" - essentially the nervous system network around the intestines and heart that inform us - intuition we call it.

I never thought of my intuition as being located in my gut. Despite the common description. I think I'd describe it more as a skin feeling. :)

Still, I'm well aware (unfortunately) of the nervous system network around the intestines.

 

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