Understanding Self-Harm
Scott Lyons explains how self-harm, such as cutting, can be a form of distraction and sensation building for individuals dealing with trauma. He also discusses the numbing effect of trauma and the importance of feeling emotions to reaffirm our aliveness. Jordan and Scott delve into dissociation as a survival mechanism and its impact on one's existence in the world. Additionally, they explore coping strategies like overbooking schedules and living in the past or future as ways to avoid facing underlying issues.In this clip
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836: Scott Lyons | Overcoming an Addiction to Drama
Related Questions
How do negative experiences, such as being told how we should feel at a young age or into adulthood, get encoded into our brains, and how does not having permission to feel our real, biological emotions impact our future decisions? This question is in relation to the episodes 365: Benjamin Hardy | How to Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs, Trauma and Identity, Alexis Haines: Trauma Triggering Autoimmunity, Addiction + Radical Recovery, Reprogramming the Mind, \[#411: Am I Too Much? Healing Your Wounds with Mom and Reclaiming Your Worth, Why You're Failing to Attract Anyone | Dr. Robert Glover - MP Podcast #105, Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #357, and Dr. Paul Conti: Therapy, Treating Trauma & Other Life Challenges | Huberman Lab Podcast #75.
What can we learn from Jordan Harbinger's unique insights in the episode 836: Scott Lyons | Overcoming an Addiction to Drama and the clip Uncovering Manipulative Behavior from the episode 181: How to Stop Blaming Other People | Deep Dive and the clip Taking Ownership?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time the person sees the spider or gets activated through some trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?