Lilac98
Policy Enforcement
I'd been having a lot of assault nightmares and thought maybe I was worrying too much that they might be real so I decided to put them to the side and focus on studying but I then had two more assault nightmares. I spoke to a random online counsellor about it and they said that maybe I was making it worse by ignoring the nightmares.
They also said this
They also said this
I don't get what I'm supposed to do if both paying too much attention to it and ignoring it are making it worse.'When we experience a traumatic or unwanted event, the memory of this event becomes stored in a different way, in a different part of our brain, from other day to day memories. Nightmares can often be a way for people who have had difficult experiences to start to make sense of what happened to them. However, they can still be very frightening. You may feel reading the following pages helpful listing coping techniques regarding nightmares:coping-with-flashbacks-new.pdf (nottssvss.org.uk)'
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