Nausea

[7Cs]

I know nausea can be a common somataform symptom of PTSD.

Do others experience it when being triggered by a memory or when getting too close to the "truth" in therapy?

For instance being in denial about certain things about yourself and getting to close to these emotions or experiences causes nausea that prevents you from actually experiencing or realizing/ fully remembering them?

Additionally, and this could have been posted in the dissociation board, when thinking about possible dissociated parts of self that may or may not exist and suddenly feeling nausea that doesn't allow you to continue that train of thought.

I guess the nausea is kind of a sign as if to say "don't go there - you can't handle this".

 

[mrsmegan]

I experience a lot of anxious nauseousness. For me it is when I am triggered, then I get anxious - and then get anxious about being triggered/anxious....

I do also experience it prior to therapy, even though I love my T and have been with him for almost 2 years - I still experience anxiety about it.

I think what you experience sounds completely normal.

Just to offer some advice - I asked my psychiatrist to prescribe me zofran and it has REALLY helped.

 

[Fiadh]

I get this, to the point where I will spot out where the nearest bin is in the therapy room. I feel sick about part of my trauma, even mentioning it- starts off nausea. And it does kind of stop me from going any further as I start to panic about where I should throw up! It's always at the same part... so annoying

 

[Crow]

T uses nausea as a hard boundary that we need to back off of whatever we're working. It's an indicator that the vagas vegal is about to go haywire

 

[Panda Bear]

Nausea is a sign of whoa....we've gone to far, back up the bus....because im about to crash and burn.

It's an intense visceral response for me and it means I can't take a single second more of feeling.

I always let T know when I'm about to be sick....

 

[Joan]

This has been one of my "top" or most common symptoms from the beginning. It used to be constant, now more of a "warning" sign...something to pay attention to. I have run out of therapy sessions to be sick. something to pay attention to.

 

[Freedomfighter]

I know nausea can be a common somataform symptom of PTSD.

Do others experience it when being triggered by...

Yep, certainly been there before.....it is a weird type of nausea, had to often lie down for hours to fight it......

 

[greycrayon]

yes I get this, when I get too close to "the truth"