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Recent content by meander

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    Body Memories - How Do You Cope?

    My T was reassuring this week about how a) the physical sensations can be the last thing to go becausewe don't always knowtheyre there and b) when we are aware of them, EMDR has great effect in reducing physical symptoms and responses. I feel your pain and frustration. God, the number of times...
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    Trauma therapy is exhausting. But I'm doing it because I want.... (fill in the blank)

    So much in common.
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    Do Your Flashbacks Come In Themes?

    Mine seem to, but I’m still learning...current triggers tend to reignite the same ones...but often there is one main trigger that starts the cycle/relapse. It was changing my daughters nappies that started the most recent ones and then I’m sensitive to all triggers...but yes the theme or scene...
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    Why Write Trauma Diaries?

    Ok. It just feels painful and pointless. Maybe I’m not there- yet. I feel like if no one reads it then it’s just the same old thoughts going round in my head. I need validation of it all. But I can’t speak audible words of it all.
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    Why Write Trauma Diaries?

    Diaries
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    Why Write Trauma Diaries?

    That’s all...
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    Sad thing - When you tell your therapist all your abuse and she can’t hug you because of boundaries.

    I think this is a changing boundary in the therapeutic relationship where it has become well known that validation is more than just listening and movement away from the traditional professional boundaries where touch is not allowed. It makes sense to me tbh because yes one of the greatest...
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    How often do you have flashbacks on an average day?

    Yes for me there are different backlashes too. Recently the flashbacks have been ramping up but I think it’s because it’s new territory on therapy. She asked me this week what I had done in previous therapy- certainly didn’t discuss specific details and kept it as one event...I just wish she...
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    How often do you have flashbacks on an average day?

    I guess. And for me I’m still exploring aka sharing/admitting what happened so it feels very near the surface and raw a lot of the time. I think in the past I have had mostly emotional ones and couldn’t understand them or even what was going on but more recently the visual has been prominent. I...
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    Trauma therapy is exhausting. But I'm doing it because I want.... (fill in the blank)

    To have a space where someone says OMG that’s awful, how can I help? To break a cycle To laugh again To be free in myself
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    How often do you have flashbacks on an average day?

    Wow this is amazing thank you for sharing, my T keeps reminding me about practising grounding. I’m only 2 months in with her and it’s tough as it’s all new, I also have a lot of life changes on my plate which impact my awareness and I get caught off guard. Thank you for sharing this.
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