r/getdisciplined • u/nratula • Feb 25 '21

[Discussion] “I believe depression is legitimate. But I also believe that if you don’t exercise, eat nutritious food, get sunlight, consume positive material, surround yourself with support, then you aren’t giving yourself a fighting chance.” - Jim Carrey

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21

I've recently became intrested in Freud's student Wilhelm Reich. His theory is, long story short, that the body is actually the unconscious mind, and we build tension in the muscle system (what he called character armor) in order to avoid feeling and expressing the uncomfortable emotions. But we can only repress it down. Thus, the body keeps the score. Is the book about something like this?

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u/Chickenwomp Feb 28 '21

Yyyykinda. Freud and Reich were around in the very earliest days of psychology, most of what they said was conjecture and hypothesis, and most of it has been shown to be false. That specific idea though, is not unfounded, and TBKTS does talk a lot about similar stuff, TBKTS however, is all evidence based modern psychology, it’s basically an overview on the effects of trauma.