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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2020 0:46:11 GMT
A SPLIT IN YOUR BEING — COMPLEX TRAUMA (CPTSD) AND THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON (HSP)www.eggshelltherapy.com/a-split-in-our-personality/ Highly sensitive people(HSP) respond to Complex Trauma/ CPTSD more intensely. It may create a split in your psyche, causing a myriad of confusing symptoms. Trauma affects sensitive people more intensely. Like any other of your reactions to stimuli, as a highly sensit ive person(HSP) your trauma reactions are also more intense than most. Because of your receptivity, you see, hear and know what others don’t. Your empathy means you take in more and feel more. You cannot help but be affected by toxic family dynamics, overt or covert abuse and manipulations. Being different by default, as a child you needed extra love and support to counteract isolation, alienation and despair. Your perceptivity and intolerance of injustice mean you are susceptible to existential depression. Your need for emotional attunement means you are wounded by emotional neglect if your parents were cold and dismissive. Things that do not affect your siblings or peers traumatise you. In other words, your sensitivity and overexcitabilities make you susceptible to stronger and more lasting trauma responses. Unfortunately, few mental health professionals understand emotional intensity and chronic childhood trauma, also known as Complex Trauma/ CPTSD. You are more likely to be over-diagnosed and medicated for mood disorders or personality disorders than to get the understanding you need. Here, we will discuss the mechanism of dissociation, which is a common reaction to complex trauma. STRUCTURAL DISSOCIATION – A SPLIT IN YOUR PSYCHE The usual reaction to pain is to withdraw. But, as children, you had little options, even when your parents hurt you, you could not leave. So instead of physically exiting, you psychologically withdraw. This is called dissociation. Like the circuit breaker in an electrical system, dissociation is hardwired into us to protect us. Unfortunately, when you dissociate, you do not only withdraw from external psychic injuries but also yourself. When Complex Trauma/ CPTSD afflicts on your highly sensitive psyche, you may suffer from a form of dissociation known as ‘structural dissociation’. This is also a core part of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Structural dissociation is a split in your personality. It does not mean you have psychosis or suffer from schizophrenia. In structural dissociation, you are conscious of who you are, but you feel completely different from moment to moment from the inside. This split started as a coping strategy for overwhelming experiences. When stressful events such as parents’ argument, physical violence, verbal abuse or prolonged neglect happened, you had no choice but to cut off. Because you are highly sensitive, you may not have externalised your pain but instead, withdraw and internalise your anger. You may even direct your anger towards yourself, turning them into self- blame and shame. Complex Trauma/ CPTSD is different from PTSD from a single incident. Under normal circumstances, you would want to avoid our abuser and to never go back to them. When they are your family members or parents, however, you have no choice but to stay. You could not deal with the trauma in a healthy way, so instead, you created a ‘separate self’ in your mind to survive the invasion. Taking this split into adulthood, you feel an internal conflict almost daily. For instance, a part of you may be like a child that is easily hurt and acts impulsively, while another part of you manages to be a strong, competent adult. A part may dominate your home life, another your career life. When triggered, you flip from one mode of being to another, confusing both yourself and others. To a degree, having different personas is normal. For instance, it is considered healthy to be different at work and at home. When your sensitive psyche is traumatised, however, ‘taking over’ of various parts can become automatic and unmanageable. You do not know why you are triggered, but before you knew it, you have reacted in ways that you later regret. Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return Dedication, Walt Whitman THE APPARENTLY NORMAL PART AND THE TRAUMATISED PART Sensitive people who suffer from Complex Trauma/ CPTSD carry an unspeakable burden. Despite carrying a painful past, you have to maintain a facade to go on with your normal daily life. If your life now involves people who have hurt or abuse you, you would want to protect them. You do not want to open the pandora’s box and could not afford to let the memories, pain and anger surge up. You carry heavy unopened baggage wherever you go. Trauma experts Van der Hart and colleagues (2004) labelled the parts of the personality driven by daily life priorities the Apparently Normal Parts, and the parts driven by your trauma the Emotional Parts. Janina Fisher calls them ‘Going on with Normal Life Parts’ and the ‘Trauma-Related Parts’. Usually, there are more than two subpersonalities. The more severe the trauma, the more complex the split becomes, and the more ‘separate’ these parts feel. But for this article, we will simplify the picture and discuss these two parts. Apparently Normal Part navigates daily life with little or no emotions. You might feel empty and numb. In this mode, you might not at all recall your painful past, or you remember what happened but feel as though it happens to someone else. While the Apparently Normal Part gets on with life, the Traumatised part holds the traumatic memories. It sometimes bursts through and catches you off guard. Your traumatised part reacts to situations with fight, flight, or freeze. Your traumatised part reacts disproportionately to situations, and see danger, criticisms and abandonment everywhere. Your traumatised part is frozen in the time of the trauma- likely when you were a child. While in an adult body, you are re-living our childhood aloneness, fear and despair over and over again. Your traumatised part is always on guard. When people come close to you, you immediately assume you would be harmed or betrayed. When your traumatised part is running the show, you are filled with tension, paranoia, and avoidance. Sometimes the traumatised part will intrude on the Apparently Normal Part, where you suddenly experience sensations or hear critical voices that seem to come from your inside but feel alien. Your Apparently Normal Part dominates your mind; it is numb and appears to be in control. The traumatised part controls your body and emotions in ways you are not always conscious of. For instance, when you grind our teeth at night, or when you burst into an uncontrollable rage. Rest in Link
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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2020 14:51:20 GMT
The highly sensitive brain: an fMRI study of sensory processing sensitivity and response to others' emotionsBianca P Acevedo,1 Elaine N Aron,2 Arthur Aron,2 Matthew-Donald Sangster,3 Nancy Collins,1 and Lucy L Brown4 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086365/Abstract Background Theory and research suggest that sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), found in roughly 20% of humans and over 100 other species, is a trait associated with greater sensitivity and responsiveness to the environment and to social stimuli. Self-report studies have shown that high-SPS individuals are strongly affected by others' moods, but no previous study has examined neural systems engaged in response to others' emotions. Methods This study examined the neural correlates of SPS (measured by the standard short-form Highly Sensitive Person [HSP] scale) among 18 participants (10 females) while viewing photos of their romantic partners and of strangers displaying positive, negative, or neutral facial expressions. One year apart, 13 of the 18 participants were scanned twice. Results Across all conditions, HSP scores were associated with increased brain activation of regions involved in attention and action planning (in the cingulate and premotor area [PMA]). For happy and sad photo conditions, SPS was associated with activation of brain regions involved in awareness, integration of sensory information, empathy, and action planning (e.g., cingulate, insula, inferior frontal gyrus [IFG], middle temporal gyrus [MTG], and PMA). Conclusions As predicted, for partner images and for happy facial photos, HSP scores were associated with stronger activation of brain regions involved in awareness, empathy, and self-other processing. These results provide evidence that awareness and responsiveness are fundamental features of SPS, and show how the brain may mediate these traits. Keywords: Emotion, empathy, highly sensitive person, magnetic resonance imaging, mirror neurons, sensory processing sensitivity Introduction Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is proposed to be an innate trait associated with greater sensitivity (or responsivity) to environmental and social stimuli (e.g., Aron et al. 2012). Originally measured in human adults by the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) scale (Aron and Aron 1997), SPS is becoming increasingly associated with identifiable genes, behavior, physiological reactions, and patterns of brain activation (Aron et al. 2012). A functionally similar trait—termed responsivity, plasticity, or flexibility (Wolf et al. 2008)—has been observed in over 100 nonhuman species including pumpkinseed sunfish (Wilson et al. 1993), birds (Verbeek et al. 1994), rodents (Koolhaas et al. 1999), and rhesus macaques (Suomi 2006). Sensory processing sensitivity is thought to be one of two strategies that evolved for promoting survival of the species (Aron and Aron 1997; Wolf et al. 2008). By being more responsive to their environments, these more sensitive organisms have an enhanced awareness of opportunities (e.g., food, mates, and alliances) and threats (e.g., predators, loss of status, competitors), and thus may be more ready to respond to emerging situations. This survival strategy is effective as long as the benefits of increased sensitivity outweigh the costs (such as increased cognitive and metabolic demand). In addition to potential costs, those with the sensitive survival strategy will always be in a minority as it would cease to yield special payoffs if it were found in a majority (Wolf et al. 2008). Humans characterized as high SPS (or HSP) are likely to “pause to check” in novel situations (Aron and Aron 1997; Aron et al. 2012), show heightened awareness of and attention to subtle stimuli, and appear to be more reactive to both positive and negative stimuli (Jagiellowicz 2012). This combination supports a tendency to process stimuli more elaborately and learn from the information gained, which may be useful in the present moment and when applied to future situations. In contrast, those low in SPS pay less attention to subtle stimuli, approach novel situations more quickly, are less emotionally reactive, and behave with less reference to past experiences. At least two brain imaging studies have examined the attentional and perceptual aspect of SPS in humans, using the HSP scale as a measure of SPS. One study asked individuals to notice subtle differences in photographs of landscapes and found that those with greater SPS showed stronger activation in brain regions for visual and attention processing compared to those low in SPS (Jagiellowicz et al. 2011). A second study, by Aron et al. (2010), compared individuals from East Asia and the United States and showed that SPS moderates the effect of culture on neural responses to culturally relevant cognitive tasks. There was a strong cultural difference in the activation of brain regions associated with attention such that low-SPS participants showed greater activation when completing tasks that were inconsistent with their cultural context. However, among those high in SPS, there was no cultural difference in brain activation in regions associated with attention. These findings suggest that high- (vs. low-) SPS individuals focus on the task itself independent of other factors. Studies have also identified genetic polymorphisms' association with SPS. One of these studies (Licht et al. 2011) found an association with polymorphisms of the low-expressing, short (S) variant of the repeat length polymorphism 5-HTTLPR (serotonin transporter, 5-HTT, linked polymorphic region). There is some evidence that carriers of the S-allele (either two shorts or the short and long combination) are more likely to be depressed in response to stressful life events (Homberg and Lesch 2011). Not surprisingly, since “genetically driven deficient serotonin transporter (5-HTT) function would not have been maintained throughout evolution if it only exerted negative effects” (Homberg and Lesch 2011, p. 513), increasing research suggests that the S-allele also has advantages (for a review see Homberg and Lesch 2011). For example, it has been associated with superior performance on perceptual tasks—more risk aversion when there was a low probability of winning, but greater risk seeking when there was a high probability of winning; longer reflection before making difficult choices and better performance on a delayed pattern recognition task (Roiser et al. 2006; Jedema et al. 2009). The role of the S-allele in a social context has also been studied (e.g., Way and Gurbaxani 2008; Way and Taylor 2010). For example, marital partners with the S-allele were more affected after a marital discussion by their partner's positive or anxious prediscussion mood (Schoebi et al. 2012). In another study of the possible genetics behind SPS, researchers (Chen et al. 2011) sought to find something closer to the strong associations between genes and traits that are predicted by twin studies but not being found with single gene research. They considered essentially all the genes (98) with polymorphisms that affect the dopamine system, and chose a trait, SPS, “deeply rooted in the nervous system” (p. 1). Employing a multistep approach (ANOVA followed by multiple regression and permutation), they found that 15% of the variance of HSP scale scores were predicted by a set of 10 loci on seven genes. Evolutionary theories of SPS are still developing and vary (e.g., Wolf et al. 2008, 2011; Ellis et al. 2011; Aron et al. 2012; Pluess and Belsky 2013), but all emphasize that there are advantages to it, many of them being social. For example, responsiveness to others' needs is essential for stabilizing cooperative relationships and trust in humans and other species (e.g., McNamara et al. 2009). Indeed, SPS—whether it is measured by questionnaires, physiological measures, behavioral observations, or genetic markers—confers benefits to individuals in “good-enough” social environments but vulnerability to negative outcomes in poor ones (e.g., Belsky and Pluess 2009; Pluess and Belsky 2013). At least two experimental studies relevant to SPS support the idea that it is associated with responsiveness to both positive and negative stimuli. In one experiment, participants were led to believe that they did well or poorly on a general aptitude test (Aron et al. 2005a, Study 4). Those high (vs. low) on SPS had more negative affect when they thought they had low scores on the test, but when they thought they had high scores there was a nonsignificant crossover. In another study, Jagiellowicz (2012) examined the association between SPS (as measured by the HSP scale) and emotional responses to positive and negative images from the International Affective Picture System. High- (vs. low-) SPS individuals rated emotional pictures (especially positive ones) as significantly more positive or negative and tended to respond faster to positives. Also, high- versus low-SPS individuals reporting positive parenting in early childhood reported more arousal to positive pictures. However, the mechanisms by which positive (or negative) social experiences may potentiate the effect of SPS on emotional reactivity have not yet been studied. Moreover, given that SPS is responsive to both positive and negative social environments, we examined whether highly sensitive individuals might show stronger neural responses in predicted brain regions to both positive and negative social stimuli. The present study As briefly reviewed above, SPS theory and research suggest that greater awareness and responsiveness to others' moods and emotions are central features of being highly sensitive. However, no study has measured the link between SPS and neural reactivity in response to others' emotional states. Thus, the primary goal of this study was to investigate individuals' brain activity in response to close others' and strangers' positive and negative facial expressions as a function of SPS. To accomplish this goal, we adapted a paradigm used in previous research in which mothers' brain activity was measured while viewing happy and sad facial images of their infants and of others' infants (Strathearn et al. 2008). Using fMRI we examined the neural activations of individuals in intimate relationships, who were recruited as part of a larger longitudinal study on marriage (Acevedo 2014). Participants were scanned twice approximately 1-year apart to provide a replication of results. At Time 1 (T1), we varied two factors in a within-subjects design (a) the target (partner vs. stranger) and (b) emotional expressions (happy vs. sad). By varying partner versus stranger photos, we were able to explore whether brain activations of individuals higher on SPS, as measured by the HSP scale (Aron and Aron 1997), would be stronger in regions relevant to responding to emotions of close others versus strangers; particularly in brain regions reflecting awareness, empathy, and readiness to act. At Time 2 (T2), we replicated T1 and included an emotionally neutral facial expression condition. This additional condition enabled us to examine more directly the extent to which SPS would be differentially associated with neural reactivity in response to positive or negative facial expressions versus neutral ones. Rest in Link.
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Post by Admin on Jan 20, 2021 16:48:44 GMT
5 Books Every Highly Sensitive Person Should Read There are so many resources out there for highly sensitive people and I know at times it can be overwhelming! As a highly sensitive person myself, there have been so many books and resources that have helped me over the years; in this post I've listed just a few of my favourite inspirational book. www.highlysensitivehumans.com/post/5-books-every-highly-sensitive-person-should-read
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Post by Chimera on Jan 20, 2021 18:18:34 GMT
Blimey! That's the first time I have seen such a description in print - except when I have written it, in almost exactly those words, in my private diaries. I have tried describing it and explaining it to other people - without ever having a name or "diagnosis" for it, although I have certainly referred to it as "dissociation" - but never has there been even a flicker of recognition of what I'm saying. Yet my ex-wife has described to me how she and my daughter never knew who I would be from day to day, so she is obviously describing from the outside what I have been experiencing from the inside. But not one "medical professional", "[psycho]therapist", or "counsellor" has ever shown even a trace of recognition of my "condition", which is so obvious to me, and so obvious (from a different point of view) to those who have had to live with me (and been damaged by having to live with me - my daughter especially).
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Post by Chimera on Jan 20, 2021 18:46:50 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2021 10:50:50 GMT
This is one of the best books i read on the multiple aspects of the Self, written by a clinical psychologist Soul Centred Healing by Tom Zinser www.soulcenteredhealing.net/books/Soul-Centered Healing: A Psychologist’s Extraordinary Journey into the Realms of Sub-Personalities, Spirits, and Past Lives When clinical psychologist Tom Zinser started working with multiple personality patients, he had no way of anticipating where his work would ultimately lead. Using hypnosis, Zinser learned how to communicate directly with the sub-personalities that, he eventually learned, exist even in healthy individuals. Oftentimes this therapeutic technique would lead to healing and psychological integration. But other times, it would lead to confusing or frustrating results. While he made substantial progress, Zinser also reached a professional impasse. Read less The breakthrough came when Zinser was approached by Katharine Mackey, a secretary in his office, who channeled a spirit named Gerod through automatic writing. Gerod, it seemed, was interested in communicating with the psychologist. Zinser approached the suggestion of “meeting” Gerod with a cautious but curious mind, only to be astonished by the clinically useful information that Gerod provided. Gerod claimed the ability to see directly into the souls of Zinser’s clients, and provided very specific guidance on how to help each one. Equally important, Gerod sketched out a map of the human soul, its structure, and destiny, far wider than models provided by clinical psychology. What started out as an experiment turned into an amazing fourteen-year collaboration with more than 650 sessions between Gerod and Dr. Zinser. These sessions enabled Zinser to breach the impasse, guiding his clients to integration at a much deeper, spiritual level. The collaboration also lead the author to a wider understanding of the soul’s structure and journey, explained in this book. Soul-Centered Healing is not a book about channeling, but about the importance of seeing our own psyche in a larger context. This compelling, mind-opening account — sure to be controversial — reveals the landscape of a larger psychic and spiritual reality, of which we are a part. From the Foreword “Books that are far ahead of their time are considerably harder to assess because they often challenge the very foundations on which we stand. For that reason they tend to make us profoundly uncomfortable, even angry. They don’t continue the conversation we were having but begin a new conversation in new territory, importing new assumptions that challenge conventional wisdom. Soul-Centered Healing by Thomas Zinser is such a book. It is an important book that is far ahead of its time. In Soul-Centered Healing, Zinser takes his readers on a spiritual journey… initiates the reader into the same mysteries he was initiated into. …It is a rich and rewarding journey, a book far ahead of its time but hopefully a book whose time has come.” —Christopher M. Bache, Ph.D. author of Dark Night, Early Dawn
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Post by Chimera on Jan 21, 2021 13:28:50 GMT
Thanks! It looks like the Amazon monster is about to get some more of my money. From one of the reviews there: That's something I have been aware of for years. Since 1994, I have been terrified of something I call "dark synchronicity". Around 1995, I think, I tried hard to find something to read that would help me to name the huge evil entity that I seemed to have become subjugated by, but I came up with nothing. (But at least I found horror fiction, in which I had had little interest before.) I've never been religious, and I know no kind of spiritual discipline, so I have no framework into which to fit my experiences. (Mostly bad, but not all. I think I must have some kind of guardian angel, otherwise I don't see how I could possibly have survived so long, either physically or mentally.) Even long before the nameless terror of 1994, I was aware of a need for something I privately called "negative religion", to compensate for a tranquilising focus on the positive in most discussions of spirituality; but it was only in 1994 that I became terrifyingly aware that my problems had a paranormal dimension. Sorry, I can't really write clearly about any of this! I still only have Jung's concept of synchronicity to give me even a feeble grasp of what has been happening to me. That may well not go far enough, although I still don't have any belief in the supernatural, which I try to distinguish from the paranormal. I'm really at sea. (Always a good metaphor, that.) And I think since 2011 or 2012 I have scarcely tried to discuss any of this sort of stuff with anybody. (I think I made some posts here around 2014, but I doubt if I was very persistent.) For the last few years, I have hardly even bothered writing anything in private journals. You wrote something recently about a feeling of pointlessness, and I considered replying at some length. (I might still do so.) But I have certainly been mired in a feeling of pointlessness for the last few years. I'm still in a dreadful trap, but now I barely even struggle to get out of it. Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no, I've said too much I haven't said enough
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2021 13:49:15 GMT
Thanks! It looks like the Amazon monster is about to get some more of my money. From one of the reviews there: That's something I have been aware of for years. Since 1994, I have been terrified of something I call "dark synchronicity". Around 1995, I think, I tried hard to find something to read that would help me to name the huge evil entity that I seemed to have become subjugated by, but I came up with nothing. (But at least I found horror fiction, in which I had had little interest before.) I've never been religious, and I know no kind of spiritual discipline, so I have no framework into which to fit my experiences. (Mostly bad, but not all. I think I must have some kind of guardian angel, otherwise I don't see how I could possibly have survived so long, either physically or mentally.) Even long before the nameless terror of 1994, I was aware of a need for something I privately called "negative religion", to compensate for a tranquilising focus on the positive in most discussions of spirituality; but it was only in 1994 that I became terrifyingly aware that my problems had a paranormal dimension. Sorry, I can't really write clearly about any of this! I still only have Jung's concept of synchronicity to give me even a feeble grasp of what has been happening to me. That may well not go far enough, although I still don't have any belief in the supernatural, which I try to distinguish from the paranormal. I'm really at sea. (Always a good metaphor, that.) And I think since 2011 or 2012 I have scarcely tried to discuss any of this sort of stuff with anybody. (I think I made some posts here around 2014, but I doubt if I was very persistent.) For the last few years, I have hardly even bothered writing anything in private journals. You wrote something recently about a feeling of pointlessness, and I considered replying at some length. (I might still do so.) But I have certainly been mired in a feeling of pointlessness for the last few years. I'm still in a dreadful trap, but now I barely even struggle to get out of it. Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no, I've said too much I haven't said enough All very interesting stuff, thanks for sharing. i think these types of experiences are 'common', it's just that humans create different models / explanatory frameworks around it all. i've been getting more & more into the magical traditions & areas, as it seems to offer me more of a believable framework around certain things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJGlTu5sEI
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Post by Chimera on Jan 21, 2021 13:58:26 GMT
P.S. Pointlessness (or purposelessness, which may be a better word for it) is more than just a "feeling", as I rather sloppily put it - but I won't try to write at length about it now.
But that was just a dream Try, cry, why try That was just a dream Just a dream Just a dream, dream
By the way, I had an EPIC dream last night. There is no hope of capturing even a fraction of it in words (even if I could now remember more than a few faded and fragmentary images). I didn't know I could still dream like that. (A capacity for epic dreaming - but little else! - was one of a number of unworldly things that kept me going when I was young, in a world that made almost no sense at all.)
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2021 14:18:37 GMT
Since 1994, I have been terrified of something I call "dark synchronicity". Around 1995, I think, I tried hard to find something to read that would help me to name the huge evil entity that I seemed to have become subjugated by, but I came up with nothing. (But at least I found horror fiction, in which I had had little interest before.) Something similar to you i think happened to me in 1990 / 91. This is part of the problem i think that some areas / experiences simply lack a proper explanatory / experiential framework. Highly authorative / recommended book on the Guardian Angel - Holy Guardian Angel by Michael Ceccetelli (Author), Aaron Leitch (Author), Frater Ashan Chassan (Author) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiWe_ZUsMcsi feel both light & dark - i have felt drawn to certain macabre tales / writings as well - Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, James Herbert, H.P. Lovecraft, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker & others. Sorry to hear that you feel trapped with it all. You are free to share what you are comfortable sharing on here. A calm sea does not a good mariner make. Ships are made for the open sea. i worked with spiritual healers for 20 years - all kinds of stories that i could go into with it all. i have found Josephine McCarthy's work 'enlightening' - she doesn't follow any specific religion / system. josephinemccarthy.com/The Magical Knowledge Trilogy McCarthy, Josephine The Exorcist's Handbook McCarthy, Josephine i got a bit fed up of all the religious / spiritual areas. However, i do not think that you are alone in these feelings / experiences / phenomena.
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2021 14:21:44 GMT
P.S. Pointlessness (or purposelessness, which may be a better word for it) is more than just a "feeling", as I rather sloppily put it - but I won't try to write at length about it now. Words are so limited - However yes - more of a state of Being. The World / existence doesn't make a lot of sense to me either. i have also always 'escaped' into Worlds of Dreams.
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2021 14:42:30 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2021 18:37:44 GMT
A Spiritual Perspective on the Highly Sensitive Person A huge amount of research has been carried out in an attempt to understand the traits of a highly sensitive person. These traits, found in around 15-20% of the population, are associated with greater sensitivity (or responsivity) to environmental and social stimuli, greater brain responses connected with awareness, memory, self-other processing and empathy. www.highlysensitivehumans.com/post/a-spiritual-perspective-on-the-highly-sensitive-person
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Post by Admin on Jun 29, 2021 9:11:05 GMT
Why highly intelligent people suffer from more mental and physical disorders Your brain's heightened sensitivity can make you perceptive and creative. But it's a double-edged sword, researchers find. TEODORA ZAREVA 11 December, 2017 bigthink.com/design-for-good/why-highly-intelligent-people-suffer-more-mental-and-physical-disordersPeople with high IQ are considered to have an advantage in many domains. They are predicted to have higher educational attainment, better jobs, and a higher income level. Yet, it turns out that a high IQ is also associated with various mental and immunological diseases like depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, ADHD as well as allergies, asthma, and immune disorders. Why is that? A new paper published in the journal Intelligence reviews the literature and explores the mechanisms that possibly underlie this connection. The study authors compared data taken from 3,715 members of the American Mensa Society (people who have scored in the top 2% of intelligent tests) to data from national surveys in order to examine the prevalence of several disorders in those with higher intelligence compared to the average population. The results showed that highly intelligent people are 20% more likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 80% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, 83% more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, and 182% more likely to develop at least one mood disorder. When it comes to physiological diseases, people with high cognitive abilities are 213% more likely to have environmental allergies, 108% more likely to have asthma, and 84% more likely to have an autoimmune disease.
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 11:34:39 GMT
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