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    Write a happy story in 3 words

    Life grew wonderful.
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    Don't know how to wake up--numbness and emdr

    Hi, I can relate to the numbness very much. I've been plagued with with for years but lately I've been sort of waking up in my mind but still feeling very numb and disconnected in my body. I stayed in bed as much as I could (bad move) because I was afraid to leave the house because I felt/feel...
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    How to cope with aging when i still feel & act like a child

    I feel like every few years I 'wake up' a bit from dissociation and then reality of my life and time lost hits me. I'm currently 'waking up ' again and I've gotten old. I'm 37 but I feel and act and dress & live like a teenager even a child in many ways but without the energy and hope anymore. I...
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    What do you do?

    I found going to evening exercise classes at women's gym helps. One with a nice atmosphere & no pressure with women all shapes & sizes. You get to be out and about with people and with a purpose but without the pressure to have friends. By just being in the company of others with a shared goal &...
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    Flop response (fight, flight, freeze, faint, flop)

    I tend to have a deep blackout sleep and it resets me - if I'm lucky. I sometimes have to literally lay myself down and keep still & wait for it to happen but eventually it does. Sometimes though it's instant like a faint. How do you come out of feeling on autopilot and like a zombie? Do you...
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    Flop response (fight, flight, freeze, faint, flop)

    Yes I find I need to quiet my mind and keep very very still which then results in a blackout deep sleep. If I don't get that blackout sleep I get a terrible migraine. Can I ask what you mean by reset your parts? How do you know your parts are stirred up and then how do you know they are reset...
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    Flop response (fight, flight, freeze, faint, flop)

    Cotton wool feeling is a really good way to describe it. I'm currently immersed in that feeling and have been for about 2 or 3 possibly 4 weeks. I can't shake it off. I used to be able to dissociate and compartmentalise at work but I had a breakdown after an assault it literally was the last...
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    Flop response (fight, flight, freeze, faint, flop)

    I have a very strong flop response to stress. I tend to faint or flop or freeze. I can't seem to find much information about the flop response and ways of managing it. It kind of merges into dissociation and leaves me very numbed and literally floppy and often I pass out into a deep deep sleep...
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    5 Things I'm Thinking Today

    Just worked out I'm not relying correctly in these forums I've been clicking reply to someone's comment instead of writing them here - oops newbie fail sorry.
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    5 Things I'm Thinking Today

    1- have I eaten enough or too much today? 2- shall I text my therapist tomorrow for reassurance or not? 3- I wonder how the new treadmills at the gym work cos I want to try them but I might do it wrong 4- is it going to rain tomorrow or will I be able to put my washing out on the line to dry 5-...
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    What is/was your favorite toy now or as a child?

    Favourite as a kid would be my cabbage patch doll & as an adult my bike.
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    When was the last time you did something nice for yourself and what was it?

    Allowed myself to start eating again.
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    What Did You Eat And Drink Last?

    Roasted seaweed snacks & water
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    Another day another flashback

    Hi I've just joined the forum and noticed you just did to. Do you have therapy to help you process your trauma? I can relate to what you are experiencing especially when you say you have an intense experience of the flashback and then think later did that really happen - even though you know on...
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    Medical Vasovagal response & triggering with bad period pain (faint/flop trauma response activated)

    Does anyone else get either triggered during their periods or have a vagal response to bad period pains? I am triggered by my past trauma pains when I get bad period pains and my heart rate and blood pressure drops so much so I've ended up in ED on a drip and wrapped in a heated blanket treated...
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    Getting Fit After Long Term Depression? Tips?

    Yes when I got back to the gym after a long break after an assault I also experienced fight flight response with exercise and I would panic even walking down the road or even just in warm weather basically anything that affected my breathing. I then got thinking about it when I realised what was...
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