Dr. Michael Kilgard
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If your finger hurts, you want to do something about it.
Your mom taught you.
Find things.
Pay attention.
Doctors tell you, pay attention.
Let me know what the symptoms are.
But sometimes that paying attention can become part of the cycle where you're feeding that.
Got it.
And that is then this positive feedback loop where it gets worse and worse and all the rest.
I'm not blaming people for paying attention to it.
It is damn near impossible to not pay attention to pain.
It's damn near impossible not to pay attention to ringing sounds.
They don't all sound like sounds.
One woman told me she heard
The sounds of a bird chirping in a cave.
That's just a very specific thing that her brain is producing, the pattern of activity.
And it's just super annoying.
Who wouldn't be it?
Easy to say, oh, just ignore it.
I understand how hard that is because our attention goes to that.