Other Blood as trigger (women please)

[Dynamic]

Two parts here

1. Blood as trigger in general

How to deal? I’ve told myself I am full of blood. I’ve seen blood a lot. But still. My head goes doom, my heart goes still, I can’t breathe I get spacey and gotta manage to avoid a seizure at worst

2. Not sure what to think about feeling any normal on my period either.

 

[Movingforward10]

I mean. Yep. When I started therapy, and saw a red wine stain: freaked out and thought it was blood.

The blood thing for me: I bled after the first rape. He commented on it. It was over him, over me, and on my clothes. During the night I bled on the bed. On my underwear.
So blood. But also wet knickers. That is a trigger too.

But: it is like any trigger.
And with mensutrating: lots of experience to practice exposure therapy.

What has helped you with other triggers?

On reflection, reading my thing and reading yours: they might be quite different?
You're seeing yourself as full of blood and blood is something awful. Which is different to my thing.

Is it worth exploring what is wrong with blood, or is that too much?

 

[Dynamic]

@Movingforward10 I appreciate you sharing. I love that it's helpful not what happened to you.

mensutrating: lots of experience to practice exposure therapy.

I understand this, but also with a lot of fog in my brain -- I don't have any ideas how to use this in my situation right now. open to ideas

What has helped you with other triggers?

such a good question...journaling. I think journaling about blood would be boring...but I could probably try harder than that. talking about this is helping

On reflection, reading my thing and reading yours: they might be quite different?
You're seeing yourself as full of blood and blood is something awful. Which is different to my thing.

I'm glad you shared with me even if not exactly the same. I think there's a misunderstanding because, the full of blood comment to myself - was when I got cut on my hand..and I was going about it normal, until the blood triggered me to the response above (doom). like I had to immediately talk myself out of a panic attack. - so I told myself this is normal. I am full of blood, if I get cut it will come out. I have worked on period blood a lot with T but not when its from other places. I cant expect to get cut..

but with T it was a different time. I was at a different stage. thoughts are coming to me quickly now, more hope, ideas. etc.

she would help me organize all the different parts of my connection to the trigger. If that makes sense.
I felt like we always went at each trigger from each angle and I would set up...helpful stops for myself along the way.

also sometimes Im just happy to have a period..then Ill see the blood and PANIC AF in the bathroom and start blinking my eyes..like nope. and need to do a lot of work to talk myself out of it.

 

[Roland]

I’ve heard some women exclusively use internal products such as tampons or menstrual cups because they can’t stand blood. I’m sure it’s hard for you. I think that’d be really hard to cope with as a woman!