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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
Complex PTSD, and most PTSD has a lot to do with the emotional part of the brain, not the intellectual processing part. There tends to be anger, fear, tears, and deep feelings on unworthiness involved. People who develop PTSD want to "not feel" again, to remember how to "block it out" like they used to. When we used the processing thinking part of our brains, for example concentrating on math, we disconnect from our emotional part of the brain, many things we do that may seem OCD almost, are functions that distract from our emotional/empathetic part of our brain. OE
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I'm terrible at math but my sister loves it and is very disconnected from her emotions. We're 9 years apart and even as a kid I felt she was somehow lacking in the emotions dept. We both enjoyed Star Trek and she told me many times she wished she could be like Spock! I loved Cap. Kirk...lol. She and I are complete opposites. She's terrified to admit she has painful emotions and she can't express them. But she used to get very OCD when she was really upset back when her kids were small. She had the cleanest kitchen floor in the neighborhood! There is no way in hell I can tell her about my emotional problems because she just doesn't get it. She sees me as weak and mentally sick because I express my emotions and see a therapist. She doesn't come right out and say it but I feel it. She can be a warm individual, but when things get to close to the bone, she shuts down.
I'm definitely not saying people who love science and math are disconnected from their emotions, but in my sister's case it seems to be the case.