I am starting to wonder why humans are capable of feeling such stong emotions during trauma and grief. If feeling such strong emotions damages the brain, why is this ability there if it can cause such damage. Isn't it a bit like having a genetically bung leg, wouldn't it not be favored by life and therefore would be bred out of humans over time. Are you sensitive? Do you see it as a weakness or strength?
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Why Do Some Humans Feel Such Strong Emotions And Are Sensitive. Is It A Weakness?
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I have often wondered this, too.
People will eat themselves into oblivion.In fact, most now do. However, the hummingbird must eat all the time or it loses weight. If we have to desire to eat ourselves to death, why were we not given the fast metabolism of a hummingbird? We both had the same risk of starvation a million years ago, so why doesn't the hummingbird's body and mind seek to horde fat?
Likewise, men have always been driven to warfare. It kills and ruins people. Why were we not created like greyhounds that just love everything and everyone?
We are created wrong, or evolved wrong, or whatever you believe how we got here.
The brain is the worst organ of all. It is the only one that seems to turn on itself and on the body and drive it to do things that are counterproductive and to stop that train of destructive thought or emotion often is so hard that it's more trouble than it's worth (thus the immense pharm. industry).
Our only hope is genetic alteration.
People will eat themselves into oblivion.In fact, most now do. However, the hummingbird must eat all the time or it loses weight. If we have to desire to eat ourselves to death, why were we not given the fast metabolism of a hummingbird? We both had the same risk of starvation a million years ago, so why doesn't the hummingbird's body and mind seek to horde fat?
Likewise, men have always been driven to warfare. It kills and ruins people. Why were we not created like greyhounds that just love everything and everyone?
We are created wrong, or evolved wrong, or whatever you believe how we got here.
The brain is the worst organ of all. It is the only one that seems to turn on itself and on the body and drive it to do things that are counterproductive and to stop that train of destructive thought or emotion often is so hard that it's more trouble than it's worth (thus the immense pharm. industry).
Our only hope is genetic alteration.
Deaf Global Nomad
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I find your question very intriguing, Maze. I could probably write a long essay on this topic bringing in biology, animal sciences, medicine, psychology, chemistry, etc... However, I will try to keep my response short. Knowing me, it will include more questions than answers.
In theory it is a strength of humans (and mammals in general) to be able to feel strong emotions and then use intelligence to explore our options and make plans. In contrast to most animals, we humans are born extremely helpless and immature. That is when our parents come into play and first teach us about our feelings, needs, wants, and desires (and how to control them) with love and limits. If we don't have the loving parents who also set limits, that sets us up for problems. Any additional trauma before, during, or after growing up can make it difficult to feel or control emotions.
In the case of trauma, our emotions may be pulled to extremes. That is why we (similar to animals) have reflexive coping skills: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. We, humans, if we cannot physically fight or flee, we often freeze. Freezing is particularly damaging because our own "healing" from trauma is interrupted. That interruption can affect us long term. We are more likely to keep reliving our traumas. Every new trauma is likely to have us respond similarly (i.e. a freeze response). According to Peter Levine in "Waking a Tiger", animals in the wild learn to complete the entire cycle by shaking once they have survived a trauma. In the therapy style, Levine proposes, we need to go back to what we physically felt at the time of trauma and then follow our bodies to get that frozen feeling out of us.
As I am only a year into the treatment, I cannot speak to any long-term effects of the therapy for myself yet. However, it is a gentle approach to access the traumas and then talk about them, use sand or play to out the traumas, or at least allow my body to physically defend myself against my abuser.
In theory it is a strength of humans (and mammals in general) to be able to feel strong emotions and then use intelligence to explore our options and make plans. In contrast to most animals, we humans are born extremely helpless and immature. That is when our parents come into play and first teach us about our feelings, needs, wants, and desires (and how to control them) with love and limits. If we don't have the loving parents who also set limits, that sets us up for problems. Any additional trauma before, during, or after growing up can make it difficult to feel or control emotions.
In the case of trauma, our emotions may be pulled to extremes. That is why we (similar to animals) have reflexive coping skills: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. We, humans, if we cannot physically fight or flee, we often freeze. Freezing is particularly damaging because our own "healing" from trauma is interrupted. That interruption can affect us long term. We are more likely to keep reliving our traumas. Every new trauma is likely to have us respond similarly (i.e. a freeze response). According to Peter Levine in "Waking a Tiger", animals in the wild learn to complete the entire cycle by shaking once they have survived a trauma. In the therapy style, Levine proposes, we need to go back to what we physically felt at the time of trauma and then follow our bodies to get that frozen feeling out of us.
As I am only a year into the treatment, I cannot speak to any long-term effects of the therapy for myself yet. However, it is a gentle approach to access the traumas and then talk about them, use sand or play to out the traumas, or at least allow my body to physically defend myself against my abuser.
I think it shows your strength as you have been dealing with it and not given up yet. But today I'm full of anger and haterd, so it's triggered off my PTSD in all it's horrid glory. But I'm not angry with myself or my abuse, I'm angry over my children and the way people treat them. I will not have it and the school shall find this out when it re-opens as I will be walking there and having it out with them, even if it hurts me due to my FMS.
BloomInWinter
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If the school admins are healthy, reasonable people, they would respond to a reasonable request. But if they are NOT healthy, going in while emotional can case some to target your children worse.
Be wary....your children will bear the brunt of the response. If it's a specific act, a specific response might help. A series, though, might require some other parents to be approached to also respond.
Good luck!
If the school admins are healthy, reasonable people, they would respond to a reasonable request. But if they are NOT healthy, going in while emotional can case some to target your children worse.
Be wary....your children will bear the brunt of the response. If it's a specific act, a specific response might help. A series, though, might require some other parents to be approached to also respond.
Good luck!
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I *hate* it when people who are "sensitive" are viewed in a negative light.
I like to think of the line from one of Jewel's songs that says "I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way". I think I'd be lost without my sensitive side!
My T tells me that I'm genetically more sensitive. I need to take more care to keep my system balanced than the average person does.
I like to think of the line from one of Jewel's songs that says "I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way". I think I'd be lost without my sensitive side!
My T tells me that I'm genetically more sensitive. I need to take more care to keep my system balanced than the average person does.
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I often think being sensitive can be a good thing too in certain circumstances. My ancestor called James Ruse was a first fleet convict who was literate. He was sensitive like me. He wrote this.
My mother reread thy tenderly
With me she took much pain
And when I arrived in this colony I sowed the first grains
And now with my heavenly father I hope for ever to remain."
He also had a gambling problem due to perhaps having PTSD who knows, this might be a drawback to being sensitive.
The first fleet was starving as all the wheat crops had failed. He was the first farmer to create a crop of wheat when the fleet was out of food. Do doubt saved the first fleet and then Australia was born. So I consider that senstivity and creativity are a wonderful quality in this person that might help survival in special circumstances. I have been thinking sensitivity might come out in the right circumstances can be a very needed quality in a community, but has some backdraws, woops I mean drawbacks.
My mother reread thy tenderly
With me she took much pain
And when I arrived in this colony I sowed the first grains
And now with my heavenly father I hope for ever to remain."
He also had a gambling problem due to perhaps having PTSD who knows, this might be a drawback to being sensitive.
The first fleet was starving as all the wheat crops had failed. He was the first farmer to create a crop of wheat when the fleet was out of food. Do doubt saved the first fleet and then Australia was born. So I consider that senstivity and creativity are a wonderful quality in this person that might help survival in special circumstances. I have been thinking sensitivity might come out in the right circumstances can be a very needed quality in a community, but has some backdraws, woops I mean drawbacks.
BloomInWinter
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We're not weak. We're the conscience of the brutal, the insensitive, the boundryless, the incautious, the reckless.
Every decent act to civilize society was thought of by someone too 'sensitive' to stand for the status quo.
If people like us weren't in the tribe all along to bring balance, care for our young, push for higher reasoning and value of each other, the tribe would have destroyed itself.
WE are the reason humanity lives.
Every decent act to civilize society was thought of by someone too 'sensitive' to stand for the status quo.
If people like us weren't in the tribe all along to bring balance, care for our young, push for higher reasoning and value of each other, the tribe would have destroyed itself.
WE are the reason humanity lives.
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