You can understand your anxiety perfectly and still feel trapped by it.In this episode. We break down why highly analytical people often get stuck in therap...
  • naught101@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I’m fairly NT (I think), without much trauma history, and my experience with therapy has been kind of similar. I think this video is probably worth a watch for you. It’s basically arguing that intellectualising is a defence mechanism that prevents proper connection to feelings, and that focusing on the physical aspects of emotions is a way to counteract that. For me, it’s not a solution, but it does provide a partial answer to why therapy hasn’t worked a bunch of times before.

      • naught101@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Thanks - I don’t know DBT at all really, and I didn’t pick up on that from watching the video. I don’t immediately see the link from skimming the wikipedia page for DBT, but I guess I’m focussing on the wrong thing to pick it up.

        • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          DBT is about the “wise mind” of you’re overly analytical you’re not using the wise mind, same with people who are overly emotional (which many overly analytical types actually are) integrating both logic/rationale and emotion into one experience is how you arrive at the wise mind, how you make those decisions is value based not emotion or logic based.