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Hi!
I have a quick question for those reading without childhood trauma (and those with trauma, too, really): do you ever feel, like, physical pain when reading things like this?
For context, my mother was emotionally/verbally (but thankfully (besides the very rare light pushing, death grips, etc) not physically*) abusive.
Sometimes, when reading stuff like this, I get pain. Not like major pain, but for example for a good 15-to-20-or-so chapters my right lung hurt? Is this just a feeling emotions thing, or a trauma thing?
(I also had to manually breathe during the whole lung thing, which was great )
My left arm also was numb with some pain all up that nerve for like the entire second half, but I think that was probably more because of how I was sitting (plus my left arm is the arm I hold my phone with) (I binge-read the entire thing).
What sorts of pain do y’all experience reading these? Please specify if you have trauma or not so I can parse that in my mind.
Thank you for any comments that might help me figure this out.