For some time now I have struggled with waking up to alarms, falling asleep due to an overactive headspace and having a routine. When in a low period I tend to shut down and avoid everything, making waking up get especially hard. My alarms are very loud and usually set about 20 on multiple different devices, placed in different locations around my room.
My previous partner had told me I can walk around, switch off alarms and talk to them quite coherently upon waking brefily, but have I no recollection of doing any of this atall, which is quite worrying. I'm struggling to understand this
I've spoken to my counsillour about this and she explains I go into something like a hibernation protective mode where my body shuts off when I'm extreme overwhelmed as a protective stress response. Or something like this.
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Does anyone else experience this or have any more information for me? Is this related to hypoarousal? Is this avoidance? I have only very recently begun talked about my multiple traumas and, starting trying to understand my C-PTSD more. Primary? and secondary traumas.
I'm struggling to understand and learn about how and why I do this, and I have not read any other post, information, resources, I want to find ways to manage this. It increasingly makes me anxious about going into another period like this since it affects my work and studying.
Any info, I would be extremely grateful!
My previous partner had told me I can walk around, switch off alarms and talk to them quite coherently upon waking brefily, but have I no recollection of doing any of this atall, which is quite worrying. I'm struggling to understand this
I've spoken to my counsillour about this and she explains I go into something like a hibernation protective mode where my body shuts off when I'm extreme overwhelmed as a protective stress response. Or something like this.
-
Does anyone else experience this or have any more information for me? Is this related to hypoarousal? Is this avoidance? I have only very recently begun talked about my multiple traumas and, starting trying to understand my C-PTSD more. Primary? and secondary traumas.
I'm struggling to understand and learn about how and why I do this, and I have not read any other post, information, resources, I want to find ways to manage this. It increasingly makes me anxious about going into another period like this since it affects my work and studying.
Any info, I would be extremely grateful!