HealingAway
New Here
Hello all,
I was recently diagnosed with PTSD, 2 years after my trauma. I've been doing my best to cope, but it's been very difficult, especially because I am still so early in healing.
I'm set to go to another state for a 3 month, full-time internship. I dissociate a lot and new places, faces for some reason terrifies me, overwhelms me, and makes me feel like I am on another planet, and not in a good way. I'm terrified to leave a place that is so familiar, and yet so eager to leave a place that is a constant reminder of my trauma. Do you guys have any advice on coping tools I can use while there, particularly in coping to a new place and learning to feel safe in an unfamiliar environment? I will have no support system as all my family will be a 9 hour flight away, and I am quite frankly very very nervous.
I was recently diagnosed with PTSD, 2 years after my trauma. I've been doing my best to cope, but it's been very difficult, especially because I am still so early in healing.
I'm set to go to another state for a 3 month, full-time internship. I dissociate a lot and new places, faces for some reason terrifies me, overwhelms me, and makes me feel like I am on another planet, and not in a good way. I'm terrified to leave a place that is so familiar, and yet so eager to leave a place that is a constant reminder of my trauma. Do you guys have any advice on coping tools I can use while there, particularly in coping to a new place and learning to feel safe in an unfamiliar environment? I will have no support system as all my family will be a 9 hour flight away, and I am quite frankly very very nervous.