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Learning to take care of myself after a late-in-life autism diagnosis.
This is a good day to write about coping precisely because I’m struggling.
When things go well, it’s easy for platitudes to slip off the tongue.
But I’m here now reminding myself what I need to do.
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Learning to take care of myself after a late-in-life autism diagnosis.
This is a good day to write about coping precisely because I’m struggling.
When things go well, it’s easy for platitudes to slip off the tongue.
But I’m here now reminding myself what I need to do.
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I love alliteration and a lot of my coping mechanisms just happen to start with p.
The first cluster involves pacing, and avoiding undue pressure.
I try to achieve this by prioritising and doing things more efficiently.
This ‘expands the pie’ of energy that’s available to me.
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The first cluster involves pacing, and avoiding undue pressure.
I try to achieve this by prioritising and doing things more efficiently.
This ‘expands the pie’ of energy that’s available to me.
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Achieving this depends on several factors.
Playing the scene through to the end helps me recognise where things are heading.
Predictability is a double edged sword. Patterns can be reassuring but they also flag up the need for preemptive action.
Prevention is better than cure.
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Playing the scene through to the end helps me recognise where things are heading.
Predictability is a double edged sword. Patterns can be reassuring but they also flag up the need for preemptive action.
Prevention is better than cure.
3/
Ever wonder how physical sensations such as a racing heart give rise to fear? Using an adrenaline-like challenge during brain imaging we found that abnormal heart-brain communication contributes to increased fear in women with generalized anxiety disorder…ja.ma/3GmzcSH 
First, women with GAD showed a peripheral hypersensitivity to stimulation across all doses indicating that it took less adrenaline to make their hearts race than unaffected individuals… (2/n)
Second, the racing heart rates were accompanied by increased heartbeat sensations. But this difference happened only during a low level of stimulation… (3/n)
Our latest work published in @PAINthejournal: Attention to Breath Sensations Reduces Pain Independent of Endogenous Opioids.
We dissected components of mindfulness meditation by randomizing folks to a #mindfulness #meditation, sham-mindfulness, + slow-paced breathing group 1/n
We dissected components of mindfulness meditation by randomizing folks to a #mindfulness #meditation, sham-mindfulness, + slow-paced breathing group 1/n
This was a double-blinded, randomized crossover designed study where subjects received IV naloxone or placebo-saline during noxious heat (49°C) to determine which aspect of mindfulness (if any) engages endogenous opioids to reduce pain. 2/n
We discovered that mindfulness and slow-paced breathing significantly reduced pain independent of endogenous opioids.
However: Sham-mindfulness meditation reduced pain during saline infusion but analgesia was reversed when we blocked endogenous #opioids 3/n
However: Sham-mindfulness meditation reduced pain during saline infusion but analgesia was reversed when we blocked endogenous #opioids 3/n
