Affective Circuit Resetting

[Muted]

Does anyone know what this is?!?!

 

[hodge]

I've never heard of it, but a lot turns up on a search. Did your T recommend this?

 

[Muted]

I've never heard of it, but a lot turns up on a search. Did your T recommend this?

Yes, but I searched it and I just don't understand.

 

[Crow]

My understanding which may be completely off base is:

During early attachment if our caregivers fail to provide what we need, our brains wire differently than normal healthy relationship babies and young children. We get screwed with faulty wiring. This makes us more susceptible to PTSD, addiction, self harming behavior. Resetting, or correcting the faulty wiring, has happened for me by healing those emotional attachment building blocks that never got put into place. That allows my brain/nervous system to function less in survival mode and I'm more able to be almost happy with my life.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[Kintsugi]

I couldn't seem to find any good journal articles about this. I found a PowerPoint for Ts on an EMDR site, and frankly, it sounded like a bunch of leading questions and other pseudo-science bullshit.

 

[Muted]

Thank you both @CrowFeather and @hodge for your responses.

 

[Muted]

I couldn't find much either @Simply Simon . I just wanted to understand the process better so that I could be prepared.

 

[Freedomfighter]

Does anyone know what this is?!?!

Can pretty much guess at it, because that is contained in my therapy, don't know when it will strike, can happen just by hearing a single word too.
All I know is that it is very painful, because so many times I have no clue what is going on.

 

[Muted]

Can pretty much guess at it, because that is contained in my therapy, don't know when it will st...

Sorry, I'm a little confused. Why is it painful and what do you mean a word can set it off?
Thanks for your insight...

 

[Crow]

Don't want to answer for fredomdighter but it can be both physically and emotionally painful for me. My nervous system is rerouting. Decades of circuitry is no more. It can take seconds or weeks for me to stabilize. Sometimes it's a sharp pain in my head. Sometimes body aches that seem endless. Sometimes crying for hours or isolating. I have to really watch my interactions at work when we do this stuff in session or I get overly aggressive or snap people's heads off. Dissociation comes with it for me. Sort of integrating long ago with now. Usually overall an unpleasant experience but necessary.

 

[Muted]

Usually overall an unpleasant experience but necessary.

That sounds risky... I'm not sure how I could possibly deal with all of that and my job etc... I'm already isolated, disassociative and emotionally tired and attempting to keep hopelessness at bay...

 

[Persephone77]

My understanding which may be completely off base is:

During early attachment if our caregivers fa...

Hello everyone. I'm new to this support group. I have not heard of the book but perhaps I could throw my hat in the conversation. Briefly, I'm a childhood survivor of severe abuse/neglect, in fact, polyvictimization from brother to many others between ages birth-10 primarily. I suffer from profound PTSD and have lost most friends/family due to outburst attacks. I am adopted. I am female. I am 53 so have been around the block. I, like so many, have built a life of isolation and planned reduction of triggers. Here is the kicker.......I am a psychologist and very successful one at that. I am also an author and a scientist and have been published in the APA Monitor. But I hide. I have been in therapy for coming up on one year after avoiding, repressing and refusing to revisit my past for decades. CrowFeather is correct in the description of "rewiring" our central nervous system. @Bliss.. It can be done. It must be done. You can get freer each time you integrate more trapped trauma energy in the oldest nervous system we have--the Enteric Nervous System. Find a therapist who specializes in Depth Psychology if you are unhappy anyone. Not just western PTSD specialization. Find a Trauma Expert who does somatic body work to stimulate the Vagus nerve (cranial nerve X). You must integrate and rewire at the neural level. YOU can do it. I still suffer greatly and had a horrible episode yesterday when the attack came on but they are far less debilitating and I'm able to recover faster so have come a long way in integrating my trauma. My central nervous system is calmer, and has never been more controlled, and best part....almost no negative condemning thoughts unless a trigger starts then off we go at the mercy of our Limbic system right? So.....I have decided myself to write a book not about psychology but about my PTSD journey as a therapist and finally "come out of hiding". I asked MY early childhood trauma expert if she would co-author. Happily she accepted. I'm only on pg. 100. Hope to be done soon.

All--Please remember trauma work does take time but should not be years and years. MOST healing comes from first learning (and I mean learning) to be compassionate with yourself at all times and in all situations and STOP worrying about how others feel so much! We are condition in the brain due to the trauma to scan the emotional climate of a room for survival so our radar is always on high alert. RE-train the brain for it will trick you. Start a meditative practice, this will help. We are all still a work in progress, please start with self love and self compassion.

Peace, Love and Light to all,
Dr. D