Movingforward10
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I'm sorry all that happened to you @justasimplecat
As someone who stuffed it all away and 'forgot' about it. It's a great fantastic not painful strategy. Until it all unravels. And it does. And then all the trauma is there anyways. But, in my case, decades later. And realising I have lived a full but not full life of numbing. Still being triggered but hiding and no awareness and just wtf!
So as painful as it is: processing is the only answer. (In my opinion. I'm certainly left with no other option).
My T specialises in transactional analysis, from a relational perspective, and does psychotherapy. I'm 18 months in. Some things have been better, something's much worse. But I'm sticking with it.
Sometimes talking directly about trauma prematurely can be harmful. Talking around it might be safer?
I hope you find a way that works for you.
As someone who stuffed it all away and 'forgot' about it. It's a great fantastic not painful strategy. Until it all unravels. And it does. And then all the trauma is there anyways. But, in my case, decades later. And realising I have lived a full but not full life of numbing. Still being triggered but hiding and no awareness and just wtf!
So as painful as it is: processing is the only answer. (In my opinion. I'm certainly left with no other option).
My T specialises in transactional analysis, from a relational perspective, and does psychotherapy. I'm 18 months in. Some things have been better, something's much worse. But I'm sticking with it.
Sometimes talking directly about trauma prematurely can be harmful. Talking around it might be safer?
I hope you find a way that works for you.