Internal Meltdown

[OtterMedicine]

I was functioning so well, and then I just started falling apart. In looking back, I can't even identify what the trigger or stressor might have been, as it feels like this has been building for a while.

I haven't been in therapy for years but it seems that I will be going back...

Has anyone experienced this? Being fine then slapped upside the head with boiling emotions- then realizing that it had been coming for a while?

 

[Lucycat]

Hi Otter,
Yes I went through that back in January of this year. I had a complete meltdown and never did identify where it came from. T said it didn't matter - just work on recovery and move forward again.

Like you, with hindsight I could see that I 'hadn't been right' for a while. But I wasn't sure in what way I was not right. I really couldn't explain it, and that is why it was allowed to progress.

I think you are absolutely right to start seeing a therapist again. By recognising the problem quickly you should prevent it from getting any worse.

Best wishes
Lucy x

 

[intothelight]

Hi Ottermedicine,

You thread touches on one of the most difficult aspects of PTSD, the sudden break that seems to come out of nowhere. The thing is, it doesn't have to be just one thing, but can be a culmination of good and bad stressors.

Hope you are doing better.

Debbie

 

[OtterMedicine]

I get it.

It never even occurred to me that I might have ptsd until last year, and now it is simply obvious.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am glad you are going back into therapy for a tune up. Yes we need these. Not too long ago I was a basket case and I don't even know what the stressors were. But things had been building and I never addressed them. Hope your journey into wellness will not take so long this time. Wishing you the very best. Good things are just as stressful as bad things. Go figure.:confused:

 

[angel2write]

Sometimes I can look back and see, in hindsight, what I could not see at the time. The triggers often elude me for a while. It's only been in the last couple of months that I realized that an accident that happened to a friend more than two years ago was what triggered my breakdown this time.

Figuring out I had PTSD has helped explain a lot of things for me, too.