Pain and Anxiety
Randolph explains how natural selection shaped the pain and anxiety systems, and how they are vulnerable to overshooting. Chronic pain and anxiety can be a result of these systems not doing their job. The solution is to self-adjust and become more sensitive, but this can lead to a positive feedback loop.In this clip
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
377: Randolph Nesse | Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Related Questions
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time the person sees the spider or gets activated through some trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, and if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right in thinking that?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider and every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?