sun seeker
MyPTSD Pro
This is a question for those in trauma-specific therapy, as opposed to more general counseling. How long did you spend on stabilization at the beginning of the process? How often do you come back to it and under what circumstances? How do you feel it helps you?
I'm reading up on the subject and thinking perhaps some of the problems I'm having now in therapy would be because we completely skipped this stage at the beginning and have only touched on it very briefly once in a while since. Those coping skills people talk so much about... I can probably think of some, but I haven't internalized them so they're second nature when I'm going from zero to 60 with a trigger that makes me feel like I'm dying RIGHT NOW. It seems like a pretty major oversight. Has anyone else experienced this?
I'm reading up on the subject and thinking perhaps some of the problems I'm having now in therapy would be because we completely skipped this stage at the beginning and have only touched on it very briefly once in a while since. Those coping skills people talk so much about... I can probably think of some, but I haven't internalized them so they're second nature when I'm going from zero to 60 with a trigger that makes me feel like I'm dying RIGHT NOW. It seems like a pretty major oversight. Has anyone else experienced this?