Time, Effort and Fixing

When thinking about a broken bone, the healing could be divided into three parts: mending the bone, recovering an effective gait and tending to the interoceptive glitches that may have emerged. The now-mended bone is treated as real, the possible remnants of the limp are treated to some extent as real and the changes to the interoceptive patterns are confusing, hard to 'fix' and (at present), hard to measure and often treated as not real. What makes the interoceptive changes worse: the cumulative effect of stress, sprains and strains, surprises and shocks, not to mention pernicious habits of a lifetime. These cumulative impacts can show up as hypervigilance, weird pain thresholds, emotional intemperance, inflammation and heightened perception of the inflammation, and a host of other interoceptive miscommunications, data transmission errors and general freak-outs. The organismic system gets stuck in the crusty past.