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Title: Emotional pain worse than physical pain
Post by: sigiriuk on January 22, 2018, 03:07:10 PM

Dear All
Found this on my travels around the web...
https://childhoodtraumarecovery.com/tag/anterior-cingulate-cortex/ (https://childhoodtraumarecovery.com/tag/anterior-cingulate-cortex/)

BW
Slim

Title: Re: Emotional pain worse than physical pain
Post by: Three Roses on January 22, 2018, 05:11:14 PM

Thank you, slim! Great, validating article and it looks like the website has more - I'll read more of the articles later. Thanks again! :hug:

Title: Re: Emotional pain worse than physical pain
Post by: Andyman73 on March 26, 2018, 02:51:51 PM

Thank you for sharing that link. I definitely saw myself there. There are some excellent links there too, I will be checking some of them out too.

Thanks again.

Title: Re: Emotional pain worse than physical pain
Post by: Resca on March 26, 2018, 07:54:56 PM

Thanks from me, as well, Slim. The way the article paints it as "excruciating, almost physical, pain" is spot on. It can feel so close to physical pain that it's hard to describe; the only answer is that it hurts, but where? Knowing that there's a biological and even evolutionary explanation behind this phenomenon is somehow soothing.

Title: Re: Emotional pain worse than physical pain
Post by: Cookido on March 26, 2018, 10:29:10 PM

Resca, you explained it spot on. I've always felt that emotional pain is worse than physical pain, in many ways.

Thank you Slim for the article!

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Development of CPTSD in Childhood => Causes => Neglect/Abandonment => Topic started by: sigiriuk on January 22, 2018, 03:07:10 PM