Recent content by feduccini

Warren, I'm glad to hear this video helped you. This guy has a very empathetic approach, less dogmatic and more focused on the human side of recovery. My symptoms are somewhat similar to yours. I had herniated disc surgery a couple of years ago, and the backpain spread after that. Leg pain and...

This experience... well I have it all the time, but as frustrating it is, the symptoms shouldn't be used as metric. We have this nervous system who takes any excuse to signal danger, good or bad. There's this discussion here about who can heal and who can't. If you think about, the same...

Same. I use journaling more as a tool to organize my thoughts when they're all over the place. Angry journaling usually doesn't work well for me. "Paying attention to energy" for me is like when I have a bad thought I pay attention to what changed in my body. Usually there's some sort of heat...

Yeah there's this threshold between healthy processing anger, and getting into the angry rumination, and it's hard to tell which is which. It takes practice, and even so, it might get hard sometimes (mostly because pain is frustrating by itself and adds to the mix). I like, when it's time to...

Well, I think there needs to be a distinction here between using the device for work/study (or even entertainment like watching a movie) and using it for social media addiction and doomscrolling. But not to sidetrack and keep the conversation on the loneliness problem of smartphone addiction...

You do know Portuguese companies are in an intense search for foreign specialized workforce, right? (IT, engineering etc.) Also, smartphone addiction is everywhere, it's not generational anymore. I forgot the name of this great English urban photographer who retired, and when asked why, he...

What I see from time to time is people who don't like PRT oversimplifying it and claiming it follows an opposite way of what's been proved to work. I personally find this conversation really boring so usually don't take part in it. But you're right, a quick Gordon search on YouTube will show...

From what I've seen and read in this space, there's been a change in the view about our relation to symptoms. It used to be about how we can reduce symptoms by communicating safety. Now it's more about how there's a neuroplastic structure to it and the need for a strategy for the long run...

As the poets go, we'll all die alone. Also, a great song by Wilco :D

We don't have the best answer yet. fMRIs are slowly getting more used, and good research is really hard to be done, given all the variables. Right now you'll get a lot of different answers which will bring frustration and confusion. For now, stick to the basics. It's some sort of glitch that...

It looks to me it's your ego pushing back. But of course, could be a lot of things...

Oh it doesn't. Sometimes you'll see people claim the brain knows exactly what's doing, and it's an elegant solution etc. but remember this is all subjective. Your brain is doing what served well for spreading genes, which unfortunately doesn't work that well for modern times where we live more...

I think it might've helped, but the issue resides more in western culture itself, like how we tend to shame children from expressing anger and sadness, or how we train our minds to an individualistic competitive world. TMS and anxiety for me is more of a consequence of a species that's still too...

I guess even then you'd not lose it, since synapses don't go away that easy (unless you suffer a stroke or brain trauma). It's just a matter of reactivation.

@Mani I won't suggest those symptoms were related to your father. It'd be very irresponsible of me. Instead some questions that might help a little: - Have you had this reaction, doing the same activity, without him (or with other people)? - Do you feel comfortable having quiet moments with...