concerned about intensified symptoms after starting trauma therapy

[brokenpony]

Just wanted to add the adrenaline rush at night doesn't seem confusing to me at all. There are many reasons my body wants to stay away through the night and the reasons are on many different levels. I've look at each them, they all go back to the traumas. Adrenaline rush at night isn't uncommon.

However, I think it is always best to talk to your psychiatrist to see if any of these symptoms may be related to meds side effects, or something else all together. Best Wishes.

yeah i actually told my regular therapist about the crazy adrenaline rushes at night (about a month ago) and he basically said it’s a normal time for the anxious brain to get overwhelmed. this was my first meeting with my substitute, who is a complete stranger, but i wanted to tell her about the new symptoms that feel hallucinatory because they were scaring me a little. i’m not sure how psychotic breaks start... :/ it shouldn’t be meds because i haven’t changed any but who knows. hopefully this will just stop happening.

A confused therapist is like a child mining the store! why is she/he confused? what do they think trauma feels like when it is awaken consciously? I find this hilarious all these therapists doing therapy and none of them ever had their own trauma to recover from...it is just fascinating.

Your whole life should go up in flames if you are waking up from dissociation or dealing with buried trauma...YOUR WHOLE BODY SHOULD FEEL BURNING AND OUT OF CONTROL at some point when you start therapy to deal with issues you ran away or defended psychologically by disappearing, dissociating and completely disconnecting. I do not even need to explain this to a toddler!

Sorry ranting here but what you are experiencing is actually a progress. You are not dead and you have feelings and you are ready to sniff them out and see for what they are. Do not let this newbie confuse you like her and stay on track.

This is the phase most of us run back to the cocoon because it is just too damn painful and hard to focus and all therapists are thinking of is gosh! I have to work harder now for this person....not HOPING this person only needs them today and not tomorrow.

Stay strong. Trust me you survived much worse and you have built in mechanism to live through it differently to let it go out out your body. This is the aftermath not the epicenter of the trauma....that was when it actually happened. No enough memories will ever feel like the first time! I have been there and done that and wished I had a therapist who experienced it so she could tell me...you will not die at least not remembering that trauma somatically or psychologically....

stay strong.

thank you, it really is scary to feel this crazy, as i really buried things deep and detached a lot so i could function. i am used to being in control and feel like i am losing it so it is helpful to think of it as a good thing.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I went through a complete breakdown when I first started trauma therapy. That was in 2011. I still have nightmares at night, but I am better in many, many ways now. I am now able to sleep through the night. Yay!!

 

[msjanetxtreme]

Extremely helpful to read this thread. 100% relate to many of the symptoms and I never did LSD. I started trauma therapy after experiencing my "first" dissociative episode (as an adult). After being in trauma therapy for just over a year, I'm here to say that 1) yes, it does get better EVENTUALLY and 2) the beginning first months were like anything I had ever experienced. People who haven't experienced similar types of trauma won't get how hard it is. I'm wondering if your psychiatrist is one of those people.