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Hey all,
So I've learnt something interesting recently.
I'm doing neurofeedback, part of which involves measuring your brainwaves with a mini-EEG machine.
So, dissociation can be seen when I do it on the screen, in real time. Everything just flattens right out - it's like my brainwaves completely stop. It doesn't look like sleep, in which the brain is still running, or passing out/coma, in which the "body" parts of the brain are working overtime and irregular.
I asked my T if we could do an experiment today, because science.
I've got a broken hand atm, and I know how to make it pretty painful.
I wanted to see how physical pain would look on the EEG. She said yes, and that she was curious too. (It's unethical to inflict pain for the purposes of studying it in that setting, but it was my idea, I did it to myself and I was curious, therefore it was ethical.)
Both of us theorized that the "body" measurement would spike, then a little brief burst of anxiety. (that could still be what happens with a regular brain, I don't know though.)
Instead... I dissociated.
Pain spiked briefly and then everything flatlined.
Fascinating, huh?
Anyway, just wanted to share that.
It helped me to realize that it was quite so physical and observable.
So I've learnt something interesting recently.
I'm doing neurofeedback, part of which involves measuring your brainwaves with a mini-EEG machine.
So, dissociation can be seen when I do it on the screen, in real time. Everything just flattens right out - it's like my brainwaves completely stop. It doesn't look like sleep, in which the brain is still running, or passing out/coma, in which the "body" parts of the brain are working overtime and irregular.
I asked my T if we could do an experiment today, because science.
I've got a broken hand atm, and I know how to make it pretty painful.
I wanted to see how physical pain would look on the EEG. She said yes, and that she was curious too. (It's unethical to inflict pain for the purposes of studying it in that setting, but it was my idea, I did it to myself and I was curious, therefore it was ethical.)
Both of us theorized that the "body" measurement would spike, then a little brief burst of anxiety. (that could still be what happens with a regular brain, I don't know though.)
Instead... I dissociated.
Pain spiked briefly and then everything flatlined.
Fascinating, huh?
Anyway, just wanted to share that.
It helped me to realize that it was quite so physical and observable.