Sufferer How do I find the space between stimulus and response?

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[Mach123]

Hi, I'm new here. Need some support from like-minded people. I experienced emotional and verbal abuse from my father growing up. Thought I was dealing with the fall-out but was bullied in my last job which resulted in a lot of mental junk re-surfacing. I am so anxious of everything and I am also emotionally disregulated. Prefer to keep away from people. Did CBT but did not help much. Did councelling and found that not only am I a highly sensitive person but I am suffering CPTSD. I have tried Mindfulness for the last 2 weeks but this has made my anxiety much worse and I find it difficult to sleep now. I need to find a way to become more emotionally regulated and to find that 'space' between stimuli and response but without the need for mindfulness. Can anyone out there relate?

Unfortunately mindfulness is the key in my opinion. If you are really depressed I don’t recommend it because in my case I couldn’t do it then I couldn’t even consider it. But when I became stable I soon realized I was going to have to do a lot of practice with my thinking because it was so unbelievably overwhelmingly negative.

But it’s a very long process IMHO. I’ve been in treatment for cPTSD for about 15 years ? Till then I had no idea what was wrong. That was really helpful all by itself . Finding out what was wrong.

I understand though I do mindfulness daily and it does get to be a pain in the neck, like everything. Sometimes I just can’t even now with the progress I’ve made so,

Good luck this is a good forum.