206 – What Chronic Pain and Trauma Junkies Have In Common

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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
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