Tom Dozier’s reflex model had an almost immediate effect of lightening the overall load that misophonia was exerting on my psyche in my day to day life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you know how something works, it shrinks and becomes more contained. The brain can allocate fewer resources to being vigilant about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve wanted to mention the book in the title, by Lisa Feldman Barrett, but I haven’t quite figured out how it connects to misophonia yet. In the book, Feldman Barrett lays out the construction view of emotion<\/em>, which turns a lot of accepted wisdom about emotions on its head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where the reflex model lightened and demystified misophonia for me, HEAM had a similar but much more immediate effect on my tendency to ruminate on negative emotions in general. One of the upshots of the theory is a (Buddhist-like?) realisation that emotions are not puzzles that you have to solve; they are just the brain processing sense data and trying to create concepts to explain it. At a certain point in the book, I realised that I was basically never going to engage in a particular pattern of spiralling behaviour again — one of those moments where you stop looking at the words and turn the book itself over in your hands, like “this just did that”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Dozier’s reflex model had an almost immediate effect of lightening the overall load that misophonia was exerting on my psyche in my day to day life. When you know how something works, it shrinks and becomes more contained. The brain can allocate fewer resources to being vigilant about it. I’ve wanted to mention the … Continue reading How Emotions Are Made<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}