Posts tagged "visceral afferent"

When the Body Goes Quiet: Losing Hunger, Fullness, and the Urge to Go

Everyone talks about bodies that scream too loudly — the racing hearts, the churning guts, the hypersensitivity. Almost no one talks about the opposite: bodies that go silent. Some people lose hunger, thirst, fullness, and the urge to empty the bladder or bowel entirely, and it is one of the most disorienting symptoms in all of dysautonomia.