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"Emotions can be viewed as a conceptualizing and intellectualizing of sensations". Many years ago I had the opportunity to treat a hypochondriac young man that was looking for psychotherapy. Before that, there were years of medical appointments looking for reasons for a multitude of physical complaints, and nothing was ever found. We went a long way together so that he could, for example, identify that the sore throat he aways complained about worsened when he was unemployed, and that the excruciating pain in his chest appeared when he thought about his ex-girlfriend. That was the biggest example I saw up close of a person with serious flaws in the process of understanding physical sensations and assimilating emotional concepts.
What would you attribute his condition to? And did he manage to solve it? I haven‘t talked about hypochondriacs at all since I‘m not really informed on that subject. I can tell from personal experience that bodily sensations are closely related to mental states… sometimes, resisting certain feelings or topics (for example under pressure, when I think there‘s no place for them) would start manifesting as a tense jaw or back pains. Sometimes pains and injuries would cause a worse mental state, by association or maybe something else. In German, they call it Wechselwirkung. How spiritual it might get: ultimately we are our bodies, and they are the one and only vehicle we have on this planet.
@@artful.maestro There is a tendency in common sense to think of mind and body as distinct entities, but I also believe they are inseparable. In Psychoanalysis they use to say that the boundary between the Ego and the external world is, ultimately, the skin. In cases of hypochondria or somatoform disorders, such as the one I mentioned, regardless of each individual's particularities, I believe that predominantly you will find a distortion precisely in the process of meaning-making of physical sensations, which is mostly socially constructed in the early interactions of the child. Even in the early stages of life, a mother taking care of a crying baby will provide constant feedback of meanings to the baby as she attends to different demands that cause it discomfort: hunger, abdominal pain, sleep, etc. Many things can be related to the genesis and shape of this distortion, such as social limitations or an inadequately adapted coping mechanism, but again, these are clinical particularities. What I see as important here, is that we underestimate or even ignore the semiotic and cultural nature of our emotions and tend to think of them as something that has simply "always existed." Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 😎
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Thank you, Nenad, for creating this environment in which we, who crash landed in this wacky century, can communicate and share the art we love so much. It's a real privilege!
Thank you for taking part in this journey for already quite some time! Let's create something wonderful together
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"Emotions can be viewed as a conceptualizing and intellectualizing of sensations". Many years ago I had the opportunity to treat a hypochondriac young man that was looking for psychotherapy. Before that, there were years of medical appointments looking for reasons for a multitude of physical complaints, and nothing was ever found. We went a long way together so that he could, for example, identify that the sore throat he aways complained about worsened when he was unemployed, and that the excruciating pain in his chest appeared when he thought about his ex-girlfriend. That was the biggest example I saw up close of a person with serious flaws in the process of understanding physical sensations and assimilating emotional concepts.
What would you attribute his condition to? And did he manage to solve it? I haven‘t talked about hypochondriacs at all since I‘m not really informed on that subject. I can tell from personal experience that bodily sensations are closely related to mental states… sometimes, resisting certain feelings or topics (for example under pressure, when I think there‘s no place for them) would start manifesting as a tense jaw or back pains. Sometimes pains and injuries would cause a worse mental state, by association or maybe something else. In German, they call it Wechselwirkung.
How spiritual it might get: ultimately we are our bodies, and they are the one and only vehicle we have on this planet.
@@artful.maestro There is a tendency in common sense to think of mind and body as distinct entities, but I also believe they are inseparable. In Psychoanalysis they use to say that the boundary between the Ego and the external world is, ultimately, the skin. In cases of hypochondria or somatoform disorders, such as the one I mentioned, regardless of each individual's particularities, I believe that predominantly you will find a distortion precisely in the process of meaning-making of physical sensations, which is mostly socially constructed in the early interactions of the child. Even in the early stages of life, a mother taking care of a crying baby will provide constant feedback of meanings to the baby as she attends to different demands that cause it discomfort: hunger, abdominal pain, sleep, etc. Many things can be related to the genesis and shape of this distortion, such as social limitations or an inadequately adapted coping mechanism, but again, these are clinical particularities. What I see as important here, is that we underestimate or even ignore the semiotic and cultural nature of our emotions and tend to think of them as something that has simply "always existed." Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 😎
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