Short conversational clip (YouTube) featuring Mihail Pautov and another speaker discussing how persistent self-criticism/internal critic and shame can somatize into physical symptoms (tension, cramps, stomach aches, hunched posture, depression). The speakers emphasize that internal emotional violence is real and often undefended, leading to bodily pain and postural/affective consequences.
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Some people have a critic going on all the time, and it hurts. They're in pain. Emotional pain. Some people somatize those pains, meaning they'll start getting cramps, they'll start getting stomach aches.
You can have a constant critic that you believe or you don't even notice.
Yes.
And you feel ashamed. And that hurts physically in your body.
It hurts physically in the body. It's always. It's always in the body. Because anytime you have a critic, you're going to feel something. You're going to. You'll kind of go, oh, I felt like a tension, like I wanted to stand against you, or I felt like I wanted to fall over. So the body is still responding. It's just that people don't usually think of those as physical symptoms, but they can be. Many people are not defending themselves. Right. If somebody hurts somebody.
Okay, you should.
Be able to defend yourself. This violence is happening inside, and people don't defend themselves. And then they. Then things go in. And then not only the critic goes in, but they.
Start walking around kind.
Of with pain and feeling hunched over, feeling depressed, and they don't know why. That's shame.