Is it safe to take a hot shower after being exposed to extremely low temperatures?

It is wrong, you should take a cold shower instead!

As a teenager, I dropped through broken ice into ice-cold water and had to walk home a mile at -10F. All the joints of my clothes were broken because they started to freeze, and the movements made them brake. At home, my mom undressed me and rubbed my entire body with snow and afterwards covered me in blankets. This grandma style wisdom has saved my life!

What is the lesson learned: Cold water, snow etc., turns on the heating reaction of your body. In contrast, a hot shower will cause your body turn on the cooling mode and make you sweat instead.

I’m wondering about attachment and transference with the therapist and the idea of escape and fantasy? How much do you think your strong feelings, constant thoughts, desires to be with your therapist are a way to escape from your present life? I wonder if the transference serves another purpose than to show us our wounds and/or past experiences, but is a present coping strategy for managing what we don’t want to face (even if unconsciously) in the present—-current relationships, life circumstances, etc. Can anyone relate to this concept of escape in relation to their therapy relationship? How does this play out for you?

I loved to use my finish sauna in winter. After 15–20min in the sauna at 180F, I went outside and rubbed my body with snow. Then I had a shower with cold water (45F), and it felt warm, crazy?. Then I wrapped myself in towels and my body felt like in heaven.

Bottom line, and it may sound weird, if you are cold and freezing, take a cold shower. If you are hot, don’t drink ice-cold drinks (as most Americans do), drink a hot tee. Your body reacts on temperature signals to counteract. If your body feels cold, your body turns the heat on, if your skin feels hot water, your body starts the cooling function by making you sweat - the opposite you want to achieve and at the and your body is confused.