Annual Mental Breakdown?!

[Compass307]

Thank you for sharing this perspective. It’s very helpful and I wish you continued healing and wellness.

 

[Freddyt]

Yup. Trauma anniversaries suck..... Even before all the trauma stuff was discovered. Middle of March - coinciding with spring equinox. And because I had no visual because when one eye is injured they bandage both so you won't move the injured one, it took a year or so of therapy before I went "hey - those are flashbacks!"

But yeah - March is not good.

At which point you understand why the title of the book is "The Body Keeps Score"......

 

[Deborah Delmastro]

Hi there, does anyone else notice a correlation between overwhelming thoughts, feelings and somatic symptoms and a specific time of the year? I recently found some old journals and without fail.. every year around the same time I am expressing the same exact symptoms, concerns and experiences but I have complete amnesia for it. Meaning I have no recall without these journal entries of feeling these things and I’m just really strutting with this. Any insight, personal stories.. anything would be very much appreciated.

I never realized how much I don't remember. As I've read back through notes that I've made and feeling that I've described I always dismiss them as not being as intense as I thought they were. However it does seem like they're cycle throughout my life that I go through a period of intense emotional pain and have no idea why