Posted by noa on March 9, 2004, at 21:22:27
In reply to Hypersensitivity: How can I chill out, posted by devon00 on March 9, 2004, at 17:49:54
Welcome to the Flaming Amygdala Gang! For whatever reason, it has helped me to have this image of my flaming amygdala as the cause of the sensitivity. I got this idea from Rita Carter's "Mapping the Mind". Her explanation of how some people pick up on "danger" signals and how such signals get processed, was fascinating to me. It's a timing thing. Danger signal system kicks into gear way faster than cortical brain/thinking and analyzing system. For sensitive/intuitive types, we tend to percieve danger without even knowing it sometimes and our danger signaling system get going before we know it, and certainly before our forebrains get their act together to try to figure out what is really going on and why and how to engage our problem solving to deal with it.
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