It’s very hard to discuss feelings with others full stop. This is one (big) reason why medical research, exercise science, healthcare system design primarily focus on quantitative research and other metrics. Unfortunately we miss a lot by excluding qualitative analysis.
It’s very hard to discuss feelings with others full stop. This is one (big) reason why medical research, exercise science, healthcare system design primarily focus on quantitative research and other metrics. Unfortunately we miss a lot by excluding qualitative analysis.
@NickEfthimiou Are you referring specifically to how exercise can improve mental health? Or are you trying to broach the topic of male normative alexithymia? What feelings are you guys talking about?
@drjeremylim Good questions. I was more referring to subjective “feelings” of physiological processes, which stems from my interest in chronic pain. So much of the literature is quantitative, but there is much to gain from qualitative. @Peter_Stilwell has done some good work in this area.
@drjeremylim @Peter_Stilwell And Chris posting about his feelings or experience of satiety prompted me to generalise this across healthcare.
@NickEfthimiou @Peter_Stilwell I work in Chronic pain myself (clinician rather than academic), and yes you do draw an interesting parallel. Subjectivity is an important concept we draw attention to when doing pain education.