Sufferers do not merely remember their trauma; they re-experience it emotionally in the form of involuntary, distressing thoughts; nightmares about the trauma; and sudden sensory "flashbacks" of sights, sounds and odours that produce the illusion that it is happening once again.
An experimental model of imaginative mental simulations, created by Sanna et al. [34], showed the virtues and vices of rumination, which is the tendency towards repeated involuntary recall of thoughts about the past, but which can also generate thoughts about future goals.
In this article we review studies that have assessed age-related differences in four such types of spontaneous thought processes: mind-wandering, involuntary autobiographical memory, intrusive thoughts, and spontaneous prospective memory retrieval.
Even something as minuscule as an involuntary motion or thought.
He said "involuntary orgasms" from erotic thoughts could lower a woman's vital energies and "cause melancholia and mental weakness".
The frequency of involuntary autobiographical memories and future thoughts in relation to daydreaming, emotional distress, and age.
This palimpsest of afterthoughts leads to ruminations on Freud's analysis of dreams, Proust's thoughts on the involuntary workings of memory, and Benjamin's theories of history fieldwork, Taussig writes, provokes childhood memories with startling ease.
The questions used in these measures are directly concerned with thoughts and feelings about involuntary childlessness, and rumination about the involuntary childlessness may persist even when psychosocial intervention improves general psychological well-being.
You probably haven't given much thought to the involuntary exhalations that signal everything from wistfulness to disapproval, but this type of breathing is more than just an emotional cue: It's actually a life-saving reflex.
