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When partners experience unexplained physical empathy

My partner gets migraines when I'm having PTSD flashbacks even when I don't tell them about it, and we're both freaked out by how their body seems to know what mine is experiencing before their mind does.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body's capacity for energetic attunement can create confusion and fear when physical symptoms appear to transmit between intimate partners.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Somatic symptoms — when the body holds the mind?”

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