Multiple Daily Flashbacks

[desiderata310]

Well if one has to be connected to others in order to "fix" trauma, then I am screwed.

Nah, you're at a different stage of recovery is all. Take some solace in knowing we are all like that to some degree.
I actually worried about the fact that I am isolating more and now moving away from the world physically. My therapist looked at it a completely different way, saying that I NEED the quiet and isolation for my nervous system to calm the f*ck down(something I can't do at the moment since I'm surrounded by noise and people) He reckons I will start reaching out when I'm good and ready

 

[Deleted member 39333]

Nah, you're at a different stage of recovery is all. Take some solace in knowing we are all like...

It has been 40+ years. And the thing that I keep trying to get across to everyone, especially my therapist, is that I do NOT want to be around people. I never have, not even before the trauma happened. I have always preferred to be alone. This isn't a "stage of recovery"; it is who I am.

 

[desiderata310]

I have always preferred to be alone.

same here. Maybe that part won't change. I do like to occasionally reach out so I dunno.

 

[FireSign8]

Dis associasion only seems to bother the people who want us all to be "team players"! At least this is how I see it.