
RSD
How do you all deal with the pain of RSD when it feels like a hot knife cutting to core or a complete vacuum of emptiness inside you?

How do you all deal with the pain of RSD when it feels like a hot knife cutting to core or a complete vacuum of emptiness inside you?
Posts and comments here share personal experience — not medical advice. For treatment questions, talk to a clinician.
I have learned that verbal processing helps me a lot. Rather than being stuck in my head reviving the moment or checked out. Listening to my thoughts makes me reflect on the situation. I usually use my spouse for that, and tell him what I need from him (just listen, i need you to acknowledge my feelings, etc)
When I’m feeling this way I tend to dwell on it and over think it which makes it worse. What I have found helps is find something sim really good at and really passionate about and hyper-fixate on it for a few hours before I know it I’m annoyed by my fixation but have got over the RSD
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