Posted by Sigismund on October 24, 2008, at 22:36:04
In reply to Re: Using the 5 senses to 'dissolve' emotional pain... » Kath, posted by Phillipa on October 24, 2008, at 20:27:55
A disc in my neck started to press on a nerve (as it turned out) and I got 6 weeks, more or less, of pain much like indigestion. Enough to wake anyone up, but not *too* bad either.
Sometimes, when I was completely sick of it, I would smoke a joint and concentrate on the pain.
It didn't make the pain go away, but it became a different kind of experience.
On another occasion I crushed a finger between 2 big rocks and was quite concerned that someone would touch it and it would fall off or something. I danced around the yard in a kind of pain state that was intense enough to be interesting.
If only emotional pain could feel like like that.
I suppose I can find dissociation something like that.
You know, it's freaky, frightening and weird, but it is interesting, if quite unhelpful. Depression though....I can't say the same of that.
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