AlwaysLearning
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So, I was choked while I was raped and had pretty bad tactile flashbacks from it for some time but it was a few years back and it wasn't the choking that I would feel.
Now years later, I live in Mammoth Lakes CA aka it's FREEZING here almost all the time and my work puts me out in the extreme conditions very frequently...Particularly it has been very windy and cold, which has a "take your breath away"/ freezing lung feeling...in much less intense degrees I usually enjoy that feeling, particularly while running, but I digress.
But lately upon coming inside from the cold I'll have to catch my breath and that has triggered the feeling of not being able to breath or hyperventilating, which then leads me into tactile flashbacks of being choked and normally I would do deep breathing exercises to calm myself but it doesn't work in this particular situation and I'm not too sure how to handle it.
Any ideas or advice?
Now years later, I live in Mammoth Lakes CA aka it's FREEZING here almost all the time and my work puts me out in the extreme conditions very frequently...Particularly it has been very windy and cold, which has a "take your breath away"/ freezing lung feeling...in much less intense degrees I usually enjoy that feeling, particularly while running, but I digress.
But lately upon coming inside from the cold I'll have to catch my breath and that has triggered the feeling of not being able to breath or hyperventilating, which then leads me into tactile flashbacks of being choked and normally I would do deep breathing exercises to calm myself but it doesn't work in this particular situation and I'm not too sure how to handle it.
Any ideas or advice?