In my experience, many women complain of aches and pains as they grow older - which makes me wonder, could the physical pain be also a manifestation of emotional pain?
This article made me think about how may psychiatric "illnesses" can have differing interpretations on causes, and it can have different manifestations, all dependent on worldview.
Adam shared with me this fantastic NPR Radio Lab talk (not sure where it is online) where our esteemed Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky shared about how we experience emotion: it is processed by our amygdala, which sends signals throughout the body, which we then interpret as the emotion: fear, disgust, joy, etc.
I talked with a pain specialist that he works with, and he says that women actually have a LOWER tolerance of pain than men do. Which perhaps is not surprising because emotional people also seem to also have more physical pain. So then, could all of the fibromyalgia, aches, and pains, have some kind of emotional cause behind them?
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Gostei muito desse post e seu blog é muito interessante, vou passar por aqui sempre =) Depois dá uma passada lá no meu site, que é sobre o CresceNet, espero que goste. O endereço dele é http://www.provedorcrescenet.com . Um abraço.
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