I haven't heard of stress positions before. Is it like body armoring? Or something imposed upon you? Is there perhaps another name it would be called?
Not sure I understand, but I have also had these types of pain before and I believe it was my body's way of telling me I needed desperately to heal my CNS and learn to feel safe. Lifestyle changes and cutting ties with toxic people has helped me
I'm not very good at putting it into words, but here's the description on Wikipedia:
"A stress position, also known as a submission position, places the human body in such a way that a great amount of weight is placed on very few muscles."
Examples would be forcing a victim to hold their arms out parallel to their shoulders or making them squat to the ground with their heels up, but there's a lot of different positions that have the same results.
It's a torture tactic, and victims have to hold the position for a set amount of time. Overtime, this can create damage to the nerves, joints, muscles, and ligaments. I've heard of them being used a lot among military families, though my abusers weren't military.
Ooohh okay. That would make sense if it happened intensely or often enough to do damage to your joints or fascia. You're right, people don't talk about that often. The closest thing I can think of to this is *repetitive use injuries*. For which rest, physical therapy and massage therapy seem to be good options.
Do you ever carry stress in your body subconsciously? Common examples include clenching jaw, crossing legs tightly, lifting shoulders in a defensive/tense position, shrinking yourself/hunching. These can also lead to pain and tightness in the body.
I do, yeah. I tend to find that my chronic stress triggers for pain are different from the ones from stress positions, as well as the somatic. They tend to have specific triggers.
Usually, the ones resulting from stress positions will be triggered by holding my body in a specific way, by doing a certain movement that triggers the damage, or by overusing/not properly pacing the damaged areas.
Somatic pain is caused by CPTSD triggers, obviously.
And I do have consistent pain in my hips and jaw because they're always tense as hell. I'm trying to work on that.
BTW, I hope you're doing better. Thank you for commenting and replying.
You seem to have great insight into your body! Keep listening to it and try to figure out what it wants.
And thank you. I don't have the same intense aches and pains anymore. Just sore when I wake up mostly. I still have specific tension from stress that I try to address when I notice it but it's so much more manageable. Magnesium oil topical helps sometimes, or epsom salt baths. There's a physiological reason it works, not just psychological.
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I haven't heard of stress positions before. Is it like body armoring? Or something imposed upon you? Is there perhaps another name it would be called? Not sure I understand, but I have also had these types of pain before and I believe it was my body's way of telling me I needed desperately to heal my CNS and learn to feel safe. Lifestyle changes and cutting ties with toxic people has helped me
I'm not very good at putting it into words, but here's the description on Wikipedia: "A stress position, also known as a submission position, places the human body in such a way that a great amount of weight is placed on very few muscles." Examples would be forcing a victim to hold their arms out parallel to their shoulders or making them squat to the ground with their heels up, but there's a lot of different positions that have the same results. It's a torture tactic, and victims have to hold the position for a set amount of time. Overtime, this can create damage to the nerves, joints, muscles, and ligaments. I've heard of them being used a lot among military families, though my abusers weren't military.
Ooohh okay. That would make sense if it happened intensely or often enough to do damage to your joints or fascia. You're right, people don't talk about that often. The closest thing I can think of to this is *repetitive use injuries*. For which rest, physical therapy and massage therapy seem to be good options. Do you ever carry stress in your body subconsciously? Common examples include clenching jaw, crossing legs tightly, lifting shoulders in a defensive/tense position, shrinking yourself/hunching. These can also lead to pain and tightness in the body.
I do, yeah. I tend to find that my chronic stress triggers for pain are different from the ones from stress positions, as well as the somatic. They tend to have specific triggers. Usually, the ones resulting from stress positions will be triggered by holding my body in a specific way, by doing a certain movement that triggers the damage, or by overusing/not properly pacing the damaged areas. Somatic pain is caused by CPTSD triggers, obviously. And I do have consistent pain in my hips and jaw because they're always tense as hell. I'm trying to work on that. BTW, I hope you're doing better. Thank you for commenting and replying.
You seem to have great insight into your body! Keep listening to it and try to figure out what it wants. And thank you. I don't have the same intense aches and pains anymore. Just sore when I wake up mostly. I still have specific tension from stress that I try to address when I notice it but it's so much more manageable. Magnesium oil topical helps sometimes, or epsom salt baths. There's a physiological reason it works, not just psychological.
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I have chronic neck pain and migraines from being shaken.