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Some image I found when searching for deep pressure on duckduckgo. Never heard of the term before, buuuuuut seems interesting...

Also, from the same image, there is a hotdog

I used to do this as a child, alone..

And now I ask YOU, have you heard of this deep pressure term before? What are your experiences? (Now u be the entertainer! I'm done with pretending!)

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[โ€“] Monzcarro 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone I know was working with a person who has a therapy dog. Apparently the dog is trained to understand when they become overwhelmed and just sit on them. It sounds like it has a similar mechanism to these techniques.

[โ€“] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

I have seen plenty of video thumbnails about this exact thing while searching about "deep pressure" online. I got very oversaturated