Yep!
Or rather, I used to. I still get the deep muscle spasms when I'm hit really hard, but early on I learned to use my other muscles to hold myself still rather than lashing out, flailing, fishing out, or arching... And once I've got those ones under control I can either choose to ride out the deep core abdominal ones and (half curled up in a ball, those ones hitting hard, the rest of me shaking like a leaf from the effort to stay relatively still), or I can stretch myself out and forcefully override those like the others and force myself standing, walking, talking. That bit I learned much later, and it's both surreal as f*ck, and not something I can do all the time. I like it much better when I'm calming myself to the point that forcefully overriding is actually stepping each symptom down, instead of having to go on despite symptoms. Not an easy thing to learn. Any of it. At any level. But possible.
If I can catch a bad cycle of these things -because they tend to come in cycles- I'll use meds to stomp on them / stop the cycle from kicking off, if possible. If I'm having one fairly out of the blue, I'll also use meds. But if I'm having them every day, or multiple times a day, then I don't. I ride them out, or force my way through them. Why? Because I looooooove having meds that will stop them in their tracks without any effort on my part. But the meds are addictive as f*ck AND I don't always have access to them. So being able to sort them on my own without meds is really important to me / a control thing, as well as not getting addicted to them & having them stop working OR having them taken away from me.
The very first step in sorting them without meds, for me, is control. Forcing the majority of my body to be doing what I want it to be doing, regardless of what the rest of me is doing. The second step is divorcing my mind from my body. Yes, my body is freaking out. That doesn't mean I have to, too. So I can talk my way through them, in my head (talking-talking is completely beyond me in the beginning of these things). Work on calming & control. There's a bunch of later steps (grounding, breathing, burning off adrenaline, etc.) but those first 2; locking down the flail, and making my mind my own are the most important.
