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Originally Posted by jo_thorne
I think it's important to treat and to think about our mood dysfunctions from all fronts, and physiological dysfunction is one that often gets overlooked.
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So true; I often forget about it myself in terms of psychological effects, because psych practitioners are naturally more inclined to treat what aspects they are trained to, almost as if they exist in a vacuum (brain in a jar!), and not so much holistically with consideration of the physiological. It's the same trouble medical professionals tend to have.. everyone's a specialist, and hardly anybody looks at these things in a connected way.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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