Somatization

[TheMrFiredragonheart]

Thank you for the clean definition and video. It is hard to learn about this in writing since it is a disorder I have never heard of.

[alyssah]

Hi Jon, what does it mean for anxiety to be "discharged" in a particular nervous system? Are you employing a physiological /stress model here? On a anatomical level, what does this mean or look like? Is there certain patterns happening in the organs or nerves of that particular nervous system? Is it a psychological threat that is activating a nervous system? So for the parasympathetic NS, do bowel symptoms indicate that the person stays longer in parasympathetic activation, rather than flowing back and forth between parasympathetic and sympathetic activation in a regular way?

[sofiafantin]

I haven’t understood how you treat psychosomatic issues that are a discharge of anxiety in the parasympathetic nervous system.. I’ ve always suffered from ocd and 7 years ago I started to suffer from anxiety and restlessness… but 4 years ago, after a traumatic episode with THC I had a panic attack and 10 days later I started to feel my head super heavy and painful.. it has been 4 years with this extremely strong symptom… and when it gets better, extreme anxiety and restlessness’s begins. I feel it in my belly…. Like a bomb of energy that is going to explode and the only way in which I calm down is run.. but it’s exhausting!!! I can’t understand if it’s a defence mechanism or not .. because it gets worse when I’ m alone or not busy.. while after the efforts anxiety stops and the heavyness in my head and strong burning headaches begins and I need to tilt my head forward.. I basically live with my head down … it’s a way in which my muscles and nerves discharge the tension That I have when I have anxiety… I don’t know what to do anymore!!

[StopAskingMyName]

Hi, what do you think about Arnold Mindell's idea of working by having clients/self purposely increase the symptoms as much as possible?  His theory is that by doing so it will switch channels (from say physical sensations to a vision or cognition or sound or any possible such switch) and this switch will bring a message for the client/self that they were unable to receive in whichever channel the symptom was originally appearing in?  for instance, a client increasing an internal pain purposefully until a vision of a balloon popping came to them and they realized they needed to be less timid and move out into life with force like that balloon.

[sarahberesford]

How do you no somatization fybromyalgia or anxiety

[pratiknathwani]

@ jon frederickson...
I am suffering from somatization from last 5 years...problem in eyes, irritable bowel syndrome, sexual problems, obesity, etc...
How to cure this...not a single medicine is working

[MrApplewine]

"Somatization" is a term used by doctors instead of "idiopathic" for patients when doctors are suffering from a condition known as "narcissistic personality disorder".

[Cocobelle]

You made it a bit difficult to understand