Wow, you put it into words. This is a struggle for me. Do you have any tools for how to develop internal sensational awareness? I never know when I am hungry, or thirsty. I have started learning from pattern recognition, like "i an feeling this weird anxious nervousness thing again, and sometimes that goes away when I drink water" but I primarily feel it as anxiety/nervousness & not just a plain sensation of thirst. Same with agitation, frustration, anger I place of hunger. I mix up emotions frequently, can't find the right word or it feels like a pile of a whole bunch of different things, and sometimes I will displace a feeling (which is maybe really just coming from an uncomfortable body sensation) and feel it as intuition that something is wrong externally, if that makes sense. It is super hard to regulate my emotions. What can I do to experience those things, like thirst, hunger, pain impartially instead of through emotional association?
Hi there! I'm not an expert in any way, but I'm coincidentally here because my therapist is helping Mr with emotional clarity and emotional regulation. I recently got an ADHD/Autism diagnosis and after getting on good meds for the ADHD realised my next big challenge was emotional clarity and regulation. So I'm basically at the beginning stages of what you're curious about. My therapist started me off with a check list of what you might call "quick fixes" - basically troubleshooting by trying to address the most basic physical issues that might be the base cause of the distress. Drink some water, have a snack, take a quiet time out from overstimulated, strech/move my body, box breathing and mindfulness. Each of those were almost like silver bullets at least once or twice. But when none of those worked, that was the next step, and that's where my therapist as started by helping to figure out what my feeling is, or address and heall from whatever traumatic experience that my mind is secretly reliving, & which is being triggered by a similar situation in the present which I'm only subconsciously seeing the connection to. It's a part of schema therapy, and she says she tried it out with me because it can be more helpful than CBT/DBT with neurodiverse people with early childhood trauma. After doing that a few times so far I've personally experienced a physical wave of relief, and a sense of calm that has allowed me several times to face a situation I would have otherwise just avoided because of the general discomfort it felt like. Now, I'm not an expert and I'm not telling you what to do. You should go see a psychologist for that, like I did. You could bring up the possibilities I just did (schema/CBT/DBT), but tbc, i only ended up with my current diagnoses and treatments when my psychologist took my thoughts on board and then suggested OTHER possibilities, so your psych might do that too! I just wanted to give you a sense of the options you have and the steps that might be involved, as they were for me - see a psych, get a diagnosis/meds if necessary, get an action plan for your day to day life, swe some progress there but also some issues, and then from there dig deeper into the emotional clarity/regulation as you start to figure out what your feelings are, what's triggering them, and what you can do about it.
I’ve struggled a lot with anxiety throughout my life. It wasn’t until college that I realized I had an actual legitimate problem with anxiety. I went to the campus counseling center a few times for it. I remember at one point realizing that I knew cognitively that there was nothing to be anxious of but I still felt anxious in my body. It was a disorienting experience.
Thank you for the captions. Your name really rings a bell for me, I'm wondering if you were mentioned in a book called Interoception and Regulation? I've saved this video to watch again. As a late diagnosed Autistic person, I know I have interoception issues but I definitely need help to work out what they are and what to do to feel better and more grounded in my body. I feel that a lot of trauma may be trapped inside of me.
thank you!! this is reassuring to what I have been hypothesizing about a young client i work with. wondering if there are other resources that are more parent-friendly to explain how trauma affects interoception?
Thank you so much for video,just had call and they recommended to follow you so slowly going throw videos you have done between watching two boys on spectrum and other medical needs. So interesting as I feel all of us myself and boys struggle with interception and my youngest has PTSD from colostomy bag surgery and seems to of escalated to were he starts to scream saying his body doing lots of things to him and I have to let him come down before I can support him. Very interesting and now have loads questions in my head is it like sensory Processing were you seeker or avoided and if you could have both 🤔 my oldest with adhd very sensitive to inner body feels but yet like ignore alot of other sensations.
This has helped give me more insight into interoception and how I might better go about helping my adopted son to self-regulate. Thank you.
Thanks for this video. Very amazing insight.
Wow, you put it into words. This is a struggle for me. Do you have any tools for how to develop internal sensational awareness? I never know when I am hungry, or thirsty. I have started learning from pattern recognition, like "i an feeling this weird anxious nervousness thing again, and sometimes that goes away when I drink water" but I primarily feel it as anxiety/nervousness & not just a plain sensation of thirst. Same with agitation, frustration, anger I place of hunger. I mix up emotions frequently, can't find the right word or it feels like a pile of a whole bunch of different things, and sometimes I will displace a feeling (which is maybe really just coming from an uncomfortable body sensation) and feel it as intuition that something is wrong externally, if that makes sense. It is super hard to regulate my emotions. What can I do to experience those things, like thirst, hunger, pain impartially instead of through emotional association?
Hi there! I'm not an expert in any way, but I'm coincidentally here because my therapist is helping Mr with emotional clarity and emotional regulation. I recently got an ADHD/Autism diagnosis and after getting on good meds for the ADHD realised my next big challenge was emotional clarity and regulation. So I'm basically at the beginning stages of what you're curious about.
My therapist started me off with a check list of what you might call "quick fixes" - basically troubleshooting by trying to address the most basic physical issues that might be the base cause of the distress. Drink some water, have a snack, take a quiet time out from overstimulated, strech/move my body, box breathing and mindfulness. Each of those were almost like silver bullets at least once or twice.
But when none of those worked, that was the next step, and that's where my therapist as started by helping to figure out what my feeling is, or address and heall from whatever traumatic experience that my mind is secretly reliving, & which is being triggered by a similar situation in the present which I'm only subconsciously seeing the connection to. It's a part of schema therapy, and she says she tried it out with me because it can be more helpful than CBT/DBT with neurodiverse people with early childhood trauma. After doing that a few times so far I've personally experienced a physical wave of relief, and a sense of calm that has allowed me several times to face a situation I would have otherwise just avoided because of the general discomfort it felt like.
Now, I'm not an expert and I'm not telling you what to do. You should go see a psychologist for that, like I did. You could bring up the possibilities I just did (schema/CBT/DBT), but tbc, i only ended up with my current diagnoses and treatments when my psychologist took my thoughts on board and then suggested OTHER possibilities, so your psych might do that too!
I just wanted to give you a sense of the options you have and the steps that might be involved, as they were for me - see a psych, get a diagnosis/meds if necessary, get an action plan for your day to day life, swe some progress there but also some issues, and then from there dig deeper into the emotional clarity/regulation as you start to figure out what your feelings are, what's triggering them, and what you can do about it.
I’ve struggled a lot with anxiety throughout my life. It wasn’t until college that I realized I had an actual legitimate problem with anxiety. I went to the campus counseling center a few times for it. I remember at one point realizing that I knew cognitively that there was nothing to be anxious of but I still felt anxious in my body. It was a disorienting experience.
@@KellyMahlerOT Thank you, I’ve had my anxiety under control for the last ten years or so thankfully.
Thank you for the captions. Your name really rings a bell for me, I'm wondering if you were mentioned in a book called Interoception and Regulation? I've saved this video to watch again. As a late diagnosed Autistic person, I know I have interoception issues but I definitely need help to work out what they are and what to do to feel better and more grounded in my body. I feel that a lot of trauma may be trapped inside of me.
That is great information, thank you
You're absolutely amazing, so insightful!
Great video, make some more 🙂🙏
Once again, amazeballs
thank you!! this is reassuring to what I have been hypothesizing about a young client i work with. wondering if there are other resources that are more parent-friendly to explain how trauma affects interoception?
Thank you so much for video,just had call and they recommended to follow you so slowly going throw videos you have done between watching two boys on spectrum and other medical needs. So interesting as I feel all of us myself and boys struggle with interception and my youngest has PTSD from colostomy bag surgery and seems to of escalated to were he starts to scream saying his body doing lots of things to him and I have to let him come down before I can support him. Very interesting and now have loads questions in my head is it like sensory Processing were you seeker or avoided and if you could have both 🤔 my oldest with adhd very sensitive to inner body feels but yet like ignore alot of other sensations.
Is this mostly from your clinical experience, or do you have references that you can share about the effect of trauma on interoceptive ability?