I am crawling out of my skin with hypervigilance!

[Enaila]

Hi friend. Breathe and get yourself grounded. You can do it! You have friends across the globe thinking of you and being supportive. Pour yourself some tea and have some treats.....darn, I forgot name of treats you used to leave in the chat room. Abba music is cued up for you and disco ball spinning! (((Hugs)))

 

[ms spock]

Just know I empathize with you and wish I could make it go away.

Thanks!

 

[ms spock]

Hi friend. Breathe and get yourself grounded. You can do it!

I am having real problems with grounding! Thanks!

You have friends across the globe thinking of you and being supportive. Pour yourself some tea and have some treats.....darn, I forgot name of treats you used to leave in the chat room. Abba music is cued up for you and disco ball spinning! (((Hugs)))

I think it was friands?

Thanks the ABBA and disco balls made me smile!

I am struggling quite a bit but I am doing much better overall.

 

[ms spock]

I am still struggling with emotional regulation. It is really hard. I am making decisions but not always following through.

I have to get out of the hypervigilance and be present and grounded.

 

[Sweetleaf]

I am crawling out of my skin with hypervigilance today too - and yesterday. I took valium a few hours ago, and it helped, made me not have a panic attack, but I'm still fairly anxious. going back and forth between dry and sweaty palms, pulse going between 80-90, beats the 106 resting pulse i had an hour before the panic attack started.

 

[KwanYingirl]

I can honestly say that the only times I have been grounded was during. Reiki session and when I got acupuncture treatments.? Other than that I’m in a state of floating outside of my body feeling like my skin is gettin stung by hundreds of bees.

I wish for you that you know what it is to be grounded. CALM. Peace. Serene.

 

[ms spock]

That is not easy @Sweetleaf! I so relate! I so relate to your experiences. I feel for you! Do you do any self care practises?

It would be good to know how to be grounded @KwanYingirl. I look forward to knowing that.

 

[Sweetleaf]

What exactly is meant by self care practices? I have a lot of tools in my toolbox, in regards to helping myself stay calm, or get/stay grounded, so on and so forth. Is that self care stuff? I do things like use lavender essential oil, eucalyptus/spearmint lotion, and other nice but strong smelling things to distract myself and calm myself. I do EFT/tapping, I have a lot of other stuff I do too. Sometimes though, I pull all the tricks I know and it still doesn't work, or, it keeps coming back repeatedly, hard, and I just can't stand existing in that state of anxiety and hypervigilance so strong i can just feel it all over my whole body, and theres just this tension in my head. I will tolerate it for as long as I can, pull out all the tricks, and if I have to, as a last resort, I pull out valium.

There are so many terms to learn in regards to all this PTSD shit.

 

[ms spock]

It sounds like to me that you have some solid self care practices @Sweetleaf!

And yes there is so much to learn!

So I am still struggling with getting out of hypervigiliance.

I am so challenged in regards to learning how to rdo grounding, and grounding exercises, even attempting to do grounding certainly triggers me.

So I need to do tiny little things from a sideways point of view to manage to even do a tiny bit of grounding. It is really, really hard. At this time this is almost impossible for me. I suffer from chronic pain, and if I didn't have that I would never notice my body. It is improving though, with a lot of work, physio, The Alexander Technique and all the rest.

Mindfulness does work for me, but I had to read the research, do a lot of reading, and work out a Mindfulness practise/s for me. Mindfulness is really dangerous for traumatised people because it can get you set up in a panic loop. The creator of MBSR says not to start doing Mindfulness when experiencing a depressive episode, so there is not a lot of nuanced teaching out there in Australia. You have to find out what actually works for you. It was a hell of a journey for me to find that out, and it almost cost me my life.

I am going to have a shitty three days because I am seeing a gaggle of people who are very stressful for me to be around. I will not organise things like this again.

 

[Teasel]

I am going to have a shitty three days because I am seeing a gaggle of people who are very stressful for me to be around. I will not organise things like this again

Good for you. May your weekend be less shitty than you expect ;)

 

[Gs172003]

I am still struggling with emotional regulation. It is really hard. I am making decisions bu...

This may not work for you but strong tastes help me. Lately lemon drops or lemon heads have been great along with either music or movement.

 

[ms spock]

May your weekend be less shitty than you expect ;)

Thanks! I hope so!

This may not work for you but strong tastes help me.

Taste does work for me at times.