The biology of psychology

It’s obvious that what happens in our heads usually manifests itself as physical reaction. There’s the whole Fright, Flight or Fight story. But that’s not really what I was thinking about.

I can’t generalise and say that all women, most women or some women find their bodies respond, or refuse to respond, the same way that mine does. I can only speak for myself, of the discovery that my mental state and emotional turmoil directly manifests itself in the way I become practically catatonic in a certain situation.

It’s my understanding that real catatonic individuals are mentally and emotionally present, but locked in a wax-figure of a body. Similarly I find I am storming on the inside and totally paralysed on the outside – frozen. Numb would be the wrong word, because I do feel pain. Crippling, air restricting pain.

 I feel like a statue crying real tears.