Why Do Therapists Ask What Part Of Body The Tension Is?

[Ceni]

sometimes people have it inthere head,shoulders,legs.
why is this?

 

[Godos]

Possibly to target a particular area in relaxation exercises or something like that.

Anxiety is strongest in my stomach. Causes vomiting. My T incorporated more repetitions to help those muscles.

 

[Pihe]

If someone is really struggling to identify their emotions, knowing what you feel where can help you and your T work out what's going on. It can also help your T know when you're pushing too far if they know that you get a sick feeling when you approach X subject or issue.

The impact of trauma is often held in the body and knowing where you feel what can help the therapy both in terms of teaching relaxation but also in understanding how the trauma has impacted on you.

 

[Ceni]

so if you were feeling your sick,it would be time to stop?
sometimes it can move to different parts,why is this?

 

[Ifa]

It might be time to take a minute for grounding, so you could calm and soothe yourself before picking it back up again. During a session my T will move in and out of very triggering stuff depending on how I'm feeling - so we keep working but she slows the pace a bit. So not stop working completely but just out the brakes on a bit.

It may move depending on what you're talking about, the intensity of your feelings or just because our bodies are funny at times.

 

[Ifowi]

This is often to begin to put words to the sensations as a way of bringing them into awareness. Doing this also helps the therapist link the clients body language and posture to the clients awareness of their body. It also begins to develop a shared language of the body between the therapist and client. In trauma therapy working with the body is particularly important as this is where the stresses manifest.

 

[Ceni]

I have headaches daily and when I do the emdr,they get worse.but I don't want to give up

 

[Ovupu]

You may not need to stop but just decrease the intensity by maybe shortening the length of sessions or increasing the gap between sessions?

 

[Zujidi]

Okay... well this is awkward. I was doing a workbook that always asks that and I write it down. Unfortunately, the parts I have tension (about 50/50) are my stomach and my vagina. By tension, I also mean pain and sometimes chest/hard to breathe and nausea depending what I am reliving. I guess this makes sense, since I was raped, but I haven't seen a therapist, too afraid to go there both financially and just my general need to avoid it.

 

[Bocuve]

Okay... well this is awkward. I was doing a workbook that always asks that and I write it down. Unfortunately, the p...

That is a hard thing to write out. Harder to verbalize. Both to yourself and a therapist.

May I ask why or what you feel threatened by the most at the idea of seeing a therapist?

Feel free to reply to my name...stp2012.

 

[Hote]

That is a hard thing to write out. Harder to verbalize. Both to yourself and a therapist.

May I ask why or what you...

I think it is partly that I think I am handling things, okay, with books and my friend. I don't want an ongoing thing that costs a lot of money over the years. I think it would be like when I went to the chiropractor for my sore back. It helped a lot, I hated the physical therapy parts, but I worked through it. It was hard, but I got tools, but that added up to $500 and it was over. I think that therapy would last much longer. Also, I don't want my family to be involved. It is weird reacting and coming to terms with something from my deep past. My daughters are getting closer to the age when it happened which I think somehow triggered it, but I just really want to keep it buried. But I realized that I had to address it when it kicked into my nervous system, but again, I hide.

 

[Rusok]

You're right in that it will continue to resurface from time to time until dealt with. Unfortunately that comes with the territory.

I don't know what options you might have as far as therapy coverage would be, however speaking as someone with a similar background, the tools I've learned in therapy have been invaluable. I certainly do appreciate the expense concern though. There is no way to say how long or short the process may be. Just that you may walk away a whole new person if paired with the right therapist.

There certainly is a lot of helpful information online and on this site. Look around at some of the threads and it may give you some helps.

My family and friends are not part of my recovery. Like you, I don't want to involve them in my issues - for many reasons. I also have daughters. This is a horrible nightmare that you don't ever truly wake up from. Suppress for a while, yes but not really gone.

I'm sorry about all this. It really is awful.