A lack of interoceptive awareness can lead individuals to ignore critical bodily signals like heart attacks or high blood pressure. — Whalespan
A lack of interoceptive awareness can lead individuals to ignore critical bodily signals like heart attacks or high blood pressure.
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“But for somebody who has no awareness of what's going on, very little interoceptive awareness, that can be problematic, too, because these are the very people who can ignore the fact that they're having a heart attack or can ignore the fact that they have high blood pressure and are carrying about life focused on everything external with no awareness of their own body.”