Trauma is Really Strange

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Por eso, ante tanta amplitud de definiciones, está bueno que alguien trate de explicar de qué se trata todo esto, y mejor aún si se hace de una forma tan didáctica con en este caso. I haven’t been sure how to feel about the characterization of this experience, so I turned to this little comic I bought years ago for some facts. Studies show that understanding how pain is created and maintained by the nervous system can significantly lessen the pain you experience. Dissociation is the hidden mystery of trauma, by learning to be grounded we can put the brakes on overactive threat detections responses.

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There are lots of simple tools and principles that help turn down the volume on triggering danger messages. Finally, the book gives some practical ways to help you rid yourself of pain; physical but especially mental things that medical specialists never seem to suggest. Incluso me gustaron más las ilustraciones y los diseños, pero también puede que ya no esté siendo objetiva.but if you're looking for something that provides more about understanding and dealing with more longstanding and perhaps complex PTSD etc, other resources are probalby more helpful. Esta vez el tópico elegido fue el dolor y se abarcaron cuestiones muy amplias, desde su definición hasta qué hacer para tolerarlo un poco mejor. My goals are: Keep it simple, learn to feel safe by engaging the body more, support people to find agency, creativity and connection.

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i felt that in its attempt to be relatable to as many people as possible, it pretty much equated trauma with stress. Psychoanalysts and others working with people experiencing anxiety will benefit from reflecting on this book and sharing it with their patients. One of the core themes is that being aware of habitual survival gestures can help us become more resilient. Haines pulls together an accessible and friendly narrative with fantastic high-level academic footnotes. Whilst I am deeply embedded in the world of biodynamics as an author and senior teacher, I strongly feel the field needs some deep philosophical housekeeping.Rather than dwell on the causes or the past, the book offers techniques that are used to get patients through it. Yet this pairing of text and image so perfectly balances academic rigor, whimsical design, and engaging little narratives. Trauma is Really Strange' by Steve Haines, with illustrations by Sophie Standing is the kind of graphic novel, you might overlook, but what is does in it's short 32 pages is pretty amazing. for those with proprioception or interoception issues (my neurodivergent baddies<3), it mentions the words and functions but doesn't quite touch on the potential differences.

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Pain is really strange* explains that chronic pain isn't simply a sign of a problem but almost a disease in it's own right. However, it is a very good introduction to what happens in the brain when a person is traumatised, and I liked the pictures.

I've been to nerve specialists, doctors, cranial osteopaths, physios - you name it who have tried to put a name to what I'm experiencing, they don't understand why I have pain but noone's made an effort to even explain how it happens or what pain really is. Ever since I joined medical school, the most common questions I've come across by patients and my own family members is regarding pain. so as a guide to how stress inpacts the body and brain, and a method of releasing it in the immediate aftermath, it's useful.

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Haines spends a little time here introducing readers to the concept of dissociation: "I feel like I am outside my body. I worked with people with mental health issues for 8 years Mind in Camden and Islington – I did advocacy for people with mental health issues. It's sort of a cross between 50's PSA drawings and neo-modern-realist art to show physical activity, tension, and the workings of the brain with its two main focal colors being greenish-aqua and muted scarlet. It pushes aside and dispels the myths that are constantly circulated in society - that pain is due to an injury; something that constantly aggravated me as I'm turned away by medical professionals because 'there's no sign of injury' and refused medical insurance payout. Thought this might a bite-size graphic account in the vein of The Body Keeps the Score; so my fault for hoping it was something it wasn’t.By the end, it makes it sound like we’re all built to overcome trauma and we’re not trying hard enough if we fail to overcome it. Outside of poor teeth/multiple dental works, and childbirth, I’ve been lucky not to have experienced too much pain life - I’m generally quite weak but have pushed my body to certain points and often have over confidence in it, whilst also completely acknowledging that things will age and change, and I have to adapt accordingly.