Hypervigilance Constante

[Emanessence]

Bonjour à tous.
Je viens de trouver votre forum et un espoir de pouvoir trouver des solutions.
Je suis en mode survie permanente, je m'inquiète de tout et de tous, surveiller, contrôler, réagit. Je n'arrive pas à réguler, à retrouver un espace sécurisé et à expérimenter la détente. Je sursaute constamment accompagné de crises de terreurs.
Je suis épuisée, tout ce que je tente de mettre en place quand je peux s'effondrer à chaque fois.
Merci pour vos lumières.

Translated by Mods:
Good morning everyone.

I just found your forum and a hope to be able to find solutions.

I'm in permanent survival mode, I worry about everything and everyone, monitor, control, react. I can't regulate, find a secure space and experience relaxation. I am constantly struded accompanied by crises of terror.

I'm exhausted, everything I try to put in place when I can collapse every time.

Thank you for your insight.

 

[Sideways]

Mod Note:
I’ve allowed this post with the translation.

Please only post in English moving forward. Our moderators are only able to keep the forum workable if people post in the same language.

 

[parrotthepolly]

Have you gotten therapy and/or processed the trauma in anyway? It's stuck in your nervous system and ain't going nowhere, that's why you're scared.

I get all that too nearly all the time and find if there isn't at least one other person or pet to stay with or visit then all the symptoms get so much worse for seemingly no reason.

 

[Susan Jane]

Welcome Emanessence, I know this well, what you are describing. I have lived in survival mode most of my life. I am learning I cannot control much of anything. It has been a very long process. I have had a new therapist for about 4 years and I trust him. That trust helped me believe I could change my cognitive behavior, slowly I have managed to move forward. That said I still have out of control terror when I try and ignore myself and body’s signals. I am in a bad phase now, but learning to listen to my body’s reaction and trust my instincts. I needed professional help and that meant finding the right person. It didn’t happen quickly but I am grateful I never gave up. I hope this gives you some comfort… You are not alone

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[arfie]

hello ema. yes, i used a machine translator to write your greeting. i am multilingual, but french is not among the languages i have studied in detail.

hyper-vigilance has proven to be one of my most therapy resistant symptoms. my greater successes have come from treating it like a drug addiction. the all-natural hormones that accompany anxiety are quite powerful, addictive and and mind altering. literally. proof available. starting my hyper-vigilance with detox to eliminate those hormones from my system opens the door to more rational thought process that can make solid use of the psych tools. to this day, a detox diet is my first step toward putting that hyper-vigilance beast back in its cage.

but that is me and every case is unique.

welcome to the forum. i hope you find stabilizing companionship here.

 

[Susan Jane]

hello ema. Bienvenue sur le forum, quelle que soit la langue. J'adore les traducteurs automatiques. yes, i used a machine translator to write your greeting. i am multilingual, but french is not among the languages i have studied in detail.

hyper-vigilance has proven to be one of my most therapy resistant symptoms. my greater successes have come from treating it like a drug addiction. the all-natural hormones that accompany anxiety are quite powerful, addictive and and mind altering. literally. proof available. starting my hyper-vigilance with detox to eliminate those hormones from my system opens the door to more rational thought process that can make solid use of the psych tools. to this day, a detox diet is my first step toward putting that hyper-vigilance beast back in its cage.

but that is me and every case is unique.

welcome to the forum. i hope you find stabilizing companionship here.

Please send me this detox diet...I want try it Arfie....:-)

 

[arfie]

Please send me this detox diet...

i don't follow a strict diet. it is basically lots of water, the healthiest juices i can find, and baby foods. i vary the diet according to my current condition and continue until the jitters, etc., pass. i set to work on plying therapy tools right away, but remind myself to take it easy. i'm operating under an impaired condition.

 

[PamelaS]

Good morning everyone.

I just found your forum and a hope to be able to find solutions.

I'm in permanent survival mode, I worry about everything and everyone, monitor, control, react. I can't regulate, find a secure space and experience relaxation. I am constantly struded accompanied by crises of terror.

I'm exhausted, everything I try to put in place when I can collapse every time.

Thank you for your insight.

But I’m not fluent in it, and it has been a very long time since I have practiced it. Welcome to this forum and I hope that it helps you as much as it has helped me.
According to the rules, apparently you need to translate into English before you post. That should be no trouble, and there are many of us who are here to support you.

I’m sorry for your situation. Hypervigilance is completely exhausting. I was in that state for two years before being able to break free of it. The reason it took two years was because I was not safe during those two years. I hope and pray that you can find safety, physically safe and emotionally safe. Please ask us about this. We all have experience with needing to be safe and we can help you.

I am reading The Body Keeps Score. I hope you can get it in French. It explains what happens in our bodies after we go through the trauma. It will be very helpful for you. The problem with trauma is that our physical body is stuck in fight, flight and freeze mode.

One of the things that I have found helpful in calming down my nervous system is to do a deep breathing technique like this:

Breathe in for 4 counts
Hold your breath for 4 counts
Breathe out slowly for 8 counts.

When you do this, it is important that you fill your belly with air, not your chest. If you’re new to this, put one hand on your chest and the other on your abdomen to train yourself to fill your belly instead of your chest. Belly breathing like this actually brings in more oxygen because it uses the bottom 2/3 of your lungs instead of shallow breathing into your chest that uses only 1/3 of your lungs.

In our bodies, we have what’s called a vagus nerve. It goes all throughout our body, but the biggest part of it is from our gut to our brain. By doing this belly breathing, you stimulate that nerve and it causes your brain to calm down. The stimulation only occurs on the last four counts of the slow exhale for eight counts. Now that I have been doing this so much, I actually feel my body click into a relaxation mode as I exhale those last four counts. This is a very effective and very simple technique to calm your body down.

Being mindful of our body is also helpful in recognizing when your body is tense, and when it needs to calm down. The hypervigilance maybe false at some times, you may actually be safe. If you’re not safe, it’s important to be as safe as you possibly can be, and there are ways to achieve that as well. We are here to support you. I hope and pray that you are able to achieve safety and calm down your body using this breathing technique. Please continue to engage here. We all understand and we are here to help you in any way we can.

 

[PamelaS]

i don't follow a strict diet. it is basically lots of water, the healthiest juices i can find, and baby foods. i vary the diet according to my current condition and continue until the jitters, etc., pass. i set to work on plying therapy tools right away, but remind myself to take it easy. i'm operating under an impaired condition.

Thank you very much for this Alfie. I have developed a nonstop tic from the trauma. It’s very hard to stop, and gets worse in stressful situations. But I have learned that it’s like a habit and like an addiction. You have to be mindful when you’re doing it and choose to provide your body with soothing in a different method. I’m hoping this very simple detox diet that you use will help. Thanks again for sharing. Have a pleasant day.

 

[Sideways]

Mod Note:
English only, folks. We can’t moderate content in foreign languages, so any non-English content will simply be removed.

@arfie & @PamelaS - this means you guys as well.

Please don’t make me keep repeating myself.

 

[Freddyt]

The single biggest thing is to start here,

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