My body is a useless annoying extension of me. what about U?

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I kind of realized that I have no relationship to my body what so ever.
my senses (eyesight, hearing etc.) don't give me useful input. My body aches all over and is practically just annoying (have an app at a pain specialist).
Other than that I don't get this "body of mine". If it's super hot, I won't notice at all, wondering why I feel like I'm dying. If it's cold, I wont get it either. If I haven't had a glass of water since like ever, I won't feel any thirsty and will wonder what could be wrong with me for hours until I solve the mystery (and drink some damn water, but probably too much of it for good measure which makes everything even worse). The same goes with hunger. I don't notice it.
If I have to pee, I will make all kind of those "I have to pee moves" until I realize when it's almost in my pants that I have to go and pee.
This body thing is just super stupid, and doesn't work as expected.
Can you relate?

if i had no senses, i'd wander into traffic and die.

so no i don't relate - i prefer life.

i also wouldn't be able to do much of what i enjoy doing.

what do you think would be better for you, can you say?

if you don't feel that it's hot, how do you know it's hot? if you don't feel that you're thirsty, then what else can that nagging feeling be-that is solved by (hey!) drinking water?

i'm trying to follow...no disrespect intended.

For some time, I thought maybe I was immune to both the heat and the cold. But then I realised that even though I don't feel it as much, I still get the physical responses. I don't feel hunger or thirst as intensely either, and people are like, "OMG how can you forget to eat?"

More or less.

I could relate simply because I don't like having needs. The body is needy, and gets progressively needy as it ages.
As the body is needy, it is also, high maintenance. Or at least, that's how it is in my own standards.

And the part that I can't relate is that I have good control of my body. Not being clumsy is one though, being sensitive yet able to take all the chaos without overloading is also another.
Then there's some more... Like how I could ignore bodily needs and discomfort until I see it fit to fulfill it or have it give up on me.


Overall, good body or not, I'm pretty much ready to let it go.

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I have a similar thing in that I do forget to eat and drink if I'm not in a set structure. I definately very rarely feel thirsty. But I think my situation is a lot milder than yours- although I do bump into things and drop things a lot, I have more body awareness.

I find that the thing that helps me most is building these things into my routine. My work breaks are at set times, so I always have a drink and go for a wee then, and I also have a habitual lunch routine. My problems occur at the weekend when I'm not working.

My suggestion is that if you have a watch or a phone you keep with you, you could set an alarm for every two hours or something and make sure you have a drink (glass of water or juice or hot drink) and try the bathroom then. Try to work lunch into your routine as well, even if it includes setting an alarm.

As for temperature, my husband bought this thermometer for our baby's room years ago. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gro-Company-Gro-Egg-Room-Thermometer/dp/B002B55BN8/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1497937630&sr=8-1&keywords=temperature+egg
I recommend it to you because it changes colour so it's easy to know if it's getting too hot or too cold. If it goes blue, you put a jumper on, of it goes red, you just wear your T-shirt or maybe open a window.

Hope this helps!

Yeah, I hate it. I'm only now grasping the importance of taking breaks. I used to work on until I got so crabby I'd lose the plot. Then I'd blame my job.

Can't believe something so small as an hourly 5-minute break could stop me from going mad.

I can definitely relate to feeling disconnected from your body. I like to think of it like my skin suit, this is the first time I'm talking about it.

I definitely forget about hunger and thirst a lot. Heat only bothers me when I actually get heat strain/stroke. Cold bothers me too quickly because this body of mine reacts very badly to the slightest breeze (Raynaud's).

But I don't hate it, I like caring for something and keeping it healthy. So caring for my skin suit isn't much different, than caring for my potted plants. Maybe the difference is I like sensing things which I think are beautiful, so I can forgive my suit of all the times it sucks.

I figure OP and I wil be the first through the door when the singularity happens. Hello Robot Body!

This sounds like sensory processing disorder, specifically with the sense of interoception (the sense of internal organ function). Those with poor interoception can have under-responsiveness or over-responsiveness, or poor sensory discrimination. They can be sensory seeking or sensory defensive.

I have interoceptive under-responsiveness and interoceptive discrimination disorder too.

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