206 – What Chronic Pain and Trauma Junkies Have In Common

Steven explains the Mind-Body Vicious Cycle of chronic pain to Eneasz, and Eneasz opines on feedback cycles in psychological trauma.

Main: The “mind-body vicious cycle” model of RSI & back pain

OTHER LINKS

Play Tetris after traumatic events to prevent PTSD

ACX review of Crazy Like Us

Our Episode about Crazy Like Us

Eneasz’s post about Trauma Junkies

80,000 Hours episode about Evolutionary Psychiatry

Yudkowsky tweet on trauma

0:01:22 – Mind-Body Vicious Cycle of Chronic Pain

0:33:23 – The Social-Psychological Vicious Cycle of Trauma

1:15:50 – Guild of the Rose Update

1:17:41 – Less Wrong Posts

1:49:35 – Thank the Patron



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