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I have no doubt that the issue you describe happens, but people have also had the experience that there simply isn't any "enjoyable activity range" to begin wit

I have no doubt that the issue you describe happens, but people have also had the experience that there simply isn't any "enjoyable activity range" to begin with. This could be some abnormality in interoception, which researchers are finding is much more common than previously thought (it was previously regarded primarily as an ASD symptom, but as much as 15% of the general population might be affected depending on how abnormality is defined and assessed).

cheshire_cat 9y ago
> but as much as 15% of the general population might be affected depending on how abnormality is defined and assessed Do you have any links to research on this topic?
- 0xcde4c3db 9y ago
  I should probably start bookmarking this stuff. To be clear, the connection to exercise resistance/intolerance is my own speculation. Most of the actual research so far is focused on the relationship between abnormal interoception and aspects of mental illness. A lot of this is also pretty preliminary; as far as I can tell, there's not yet much consensus on even a rigorous definition of which sensory functions qualify as "interoceptive", let alone validation of methods to measure it. That being said, interesting articles include: Alexithymia, not autism, is associated with impaired interoception [1] “Lacking warmth”: Alexithymia trait is related to warm-specific thermal somatosensory processing [2] Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception [3] Alexithymia Is Associated With a Multidomain, Multidimensional Failure of Interoception: Evidence From Novel Tests [4] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962768/ [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595273/ [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5098957/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5098957/ [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824617/

cheshire_cat 9y ago

> but as much as 15% of the general population might be affected depending on how abnormality is defined and assessed Do you have any links to research on this topic?

0xcde4c3db 9y ago
I should probably start bookmarking this stuff. To be clear, the connection to exercise resistance/intolerance is my own speculation. Most of the actual research so far is focused on the relationship between abnormal interoception and aspects of mental illness. A lot of this is also pretty preliminary; as far as I can tell, there's not yet much consensus on even a rigorous definition of which sensory functions qualify as "interoceptive", let alone validation of methods to measure it. That being said, interesting articles include: Alexithymia, not autism, is associated with impaired interoception [1] “Lacking warmth”: Alexithymia trait is related to warm-specific thermal somatosensory processing [2] Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception [3] Alexithymia Is Associated With a Multidomain, Multidimensional Failure of Interoception: Evidence From Novel Tests [4] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962768/ [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595273/ [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5098957/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5098957/ [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824617/