Triggers: How to Stop Being Triggered: PTSD and Trauma Recovery #1
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Triggers, also known as "paired associations" in psychology, are when our brain links an object or event with the flight/fight/freeze response. Triggers often come as a result of trauma and are associated with PTSD. They can be quite strong reactions and often lead to the one thing that makes them worse - avoidance. In this video I teach you how to recognize triggers and how to overcome them through a simple, psychology-based approach.
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Great explanation! Thanks for that great work!
Thank you!
Almost every video makes me think most of you are faking knowing about this because like Bob Marley said every man thinks his burden is the heaviest. You don't realize ptsd is barely ever triggered. I go to sleep and wake up in a sudden shock because I have no control over a sleeping mind. I wake up and boom . You all learn about PTSD from stereotype to low key malinger. Some of you really convinced yourself it's genuine. I want you to see this comment and really get it. That's why I didn't tell you what I think of you
@@thisgame2 She is a dangerous person! She knows almost nothing about PTSD. If I knew her name and the Professional Organization she belonged to I would report her.
Because of Ad at beginning I miss part of the video.
@@thisgame2 It certainly takes a lot more to understand ANY psychological condition. I suggest people consider the fact this thread is pinned by the channel for a second: Is it the most informative and meaningful? Or is it pinned simply for promotion sake because it is positive feedback?
To all my PTSD brothers and sisters Healing is painful but not impossible♥️ you can do this
Thank you. I just started this journey yesterday after 25 years of letting one traumatic event after another and lettinf it rule my entire life and I even projected it on someone I never meant to hurt and just sabotaged myself so badly to the point where I've hit my rock bottom and it took all that for me to finally begin to learn how to begin to sit with all of this mess my life wss and set myself free. Im even startinf therapy Monday and for the first time in over a year I'm trying to get back to work. One day ill even have the love of my life back by my side I hope if she can find it in her to forgive me for the awful things she had to endure and ill finally be able to be a father to my son. Ive got a long road ahead and my son and my love are the only 2 people in my life RN because every single person I've ever known had to cut ties with me and leave due to my actions of sabotaging myself. Thank you for the comment I needed to see it and hear I CAN do it because RN despite all the steps I've made in the right direction it'll take a lot more to show the 2 people I love the most and the only two peopke I need and that matter time that I got this ans ill pull thru ans set everything right and ill finally be able to be who my little broken family needs me to be. And ill make it up to them and do what I can to help them heal and get what they need to be able to be in a place where I have trust and build back up a healthy relatiinship. Its gonna be a long difficult journey but im motivated and and I will not rest until i m free and my family is free and everything is okay. Thank you if you read all that I just really needed to hear or see someone say I CAN do this without doubts ill fail becuase I can't fail. Its taken me a long time to say this and ill keep saying it til I believe it with all my heart. I deserve to be free of my past even the most recent things.. I deserve to be happy I can do this and I will. Sorry for the huge comment.. I just gotta let it out even if no one ever reads this. Thats fine I needed this
@@genesismara4726 i had 89 points..so very severe.. now i have only 18. You can do it. I trust you. You deserve the peace. ♥️you are amazing🤗
Please pray for me brother. I'm doing bad
@@Kinglilq God is with u! I will pray for u🙏
this made me cry…. it feels impossible but encouragement that it is possible is helpful❤
What's so interesting to me is, after experiencing trauma, I was told to 'just try to forget it' and 'learn what your triggers are so that you can avoid them.' But I don't want to allow the event that traumatized me to control my life. I want that power back. I don't want to avoid my triggers, I want to overcome them. Especially when I start ruminating and just obsessively thinking about what happened in a loop.... I don't want to feel fear and panic when I remember it, I just want to understand it and take back the power that was stolen from me. This is the only time I have heard anyone speak out and say we have to (slowly) work through and face the trauma, not avoid it. Avoidance continues the cycle of control over my life that the traumatic event has. I am sick of it. I don't want to live in fear, and I'm ready to take back my power. It's my life, my experience, and I will choose how it affects me... that's what I want. ❤️ Thank you.
How’s it going, what have you found useful? I need some help 💆🏼♂️
yo same here, how are you now? what did u do?
Same here i just Don't want to ruminate and obsessively think about those days and be afraid of facing those situations again.
you don’t even know how much this video has helped me. i just experienced an intense trigger and it made me realize that i’m so tired of avoiding my triggers and living in fear and anxiety. But i didn’t know how i could possible get rid of them and i felt scared that i would have to live with this alone my whole life. But i found this video and it has changed so much for me. Now i finally know how to face my triggers and get rid of them. I can’t thank you enough! ❤️
lost empath i know right? This feels like a secret a lot of “counsellors” wouldn’t want to get out, because they’ll all be making less money if simple, practical solutions that work start being made directly available for free on CZcams 😆 💝
Where was this video my whole life. You saved me money from buying book after book after book all in a few min lol
I've been treated for anxiety the same way so when I developed PTSD I thought I could overcome my triggers like that too but it got worse. I knowingly faced my triggers again and again and my flashbacks became so intense they lingered for days and while I was in them I could just cry and shake, I couldn't even speak or close my eyes or move. Sometimes taking a step back is the right thing to do. Not everytime and not forever of course. But maybe start working on your triggers after you worked out your trauma a little in a safe environment.
I'm having this issue right now. I grind through the trigger and I crash following the experience. I feel physically weak and shaky, my head feels like there's pressure building from the inside. My eyelids feel weighted and droop. I have had this for several years now. I still really struggle.
I am going to a pain clinic that specializes in "Central Sensitization Syndrome (CSS)" which is when the limbic system is overactive from trauma, or chemical injury. Associated diseases are Fibromyalgia, Chronic fatigue and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Crohn's disease to name just a few.
Here's a link to a youtube description of CSS from Mayo Clinic. I hope this helps. :) You are not alone.
She knows nothing about PTSD.
Can't work out just had surgery
Don’t worry I had this issue I’m now to the point now where I’m emotionally numb I can’t cry when I feel triggered or even feel happy hopefully you have recovered but do practice facing your triggers in a safe manner! Hopefully you had a speedy recovery my friend
@@tlc1of3 how’s it going 2 years on? I’m exactly where you were now and for 10 months basically bedridden crashing
My whole life has been a trauma. I’m 45 now and wasn’t diagnosed till 11 years ago. The meds are horrible! Re wire the brain.. sounds too good to be true. Anxiety is bad, but that’s not even the worse. God Bless all PTSD Sufferers. ❤️
Me too. How are you feeling now? how are you caring for yourself? And working through this stuff right now
Rewiring the Brain may sound too good to be true... in the beginning. I was there too. But it’s possible. I’m near the end of my cycle, the very end. So close to completing the rewiring process.
@@chiniromero3870 can you share your experiences
Get off the meds.. it’s pointless to take them if they do not help with your symptoms.
God bless all mental illness and personality disorder sufferers. They are all horrible in their own ways.
I love how you slow things down and explain them in a calm measured way!
I've experienced extreme trauma since I was a child and get easily triggered, especially by people's anger directed at me, including death stares! I even get triggered when I make a minor mistake; however, I'm much better with the latter one than I used to be. 😥
Same man
She knows very little about PTSD, maybe what was understood about 25 years ago not today. If anyone is struggling stay away from her. I have suffered with it for most of my life, and recently I found this study and it has helped immensely. The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. by Bessel van der Kolk. If you listen to her it won't work, she'll convince you that it is you, and then you'll be more depressed.
I got that book 4 or 5 months ago, it was highly recommended. I have been struggling to read it and have to stop when I can't breathe. how were you able to read it? I would like to continue reading it.
The problem is that once I’m triggered that feeling will stay there forever.. it doesn’t stop until I “avoid” it.
I keep coming across your videos. I feel like you're going to help save my life. Thank you. My ex committed suicide in my closet last year and oddly enough I have had a harder past 6 months than the first 6 months. Harder being a severe understatement. You are amazing; thank you so much for all you do.
Thank you, sincerely thank you for all you do. You are able to explain so much in understandable terms and with such warmth and passion for your craft, it is a joy to learn from you. Super helpful in moving forward. 🙏
Wow, this was great. Someone else mentioned in the comments how they had never heard the subject being explained that way before. Well me either and just this has helped a lot for me to look at triggers differently. Thank you for this and looking forward to watching more vides and getting more insight. 😊
Trauma has been apart of my life for a very long time, and this helped me. Thank you
Hi Dr. Emma. I've gotten so much out of your videos, and your counsel and information has helped me through some of the hardest times of my life. I just wanted to thank you for making this life saving information so accessible and easy to understand. You've made my life immeasurably better and I can't thank you enough ❤
I commend your passion to share useful and practical knowledge to help someone in need. Thank you so much and be blessed!
1:37 Omg that is so cute😍 made me stop judging my brain and myself so hard and instead love it because it’s doing what it knows best through repetitive behaviors. And I can change it ♥️
I’m so happy I found this today. Oh my god did I need this today. Thank you for making this you lovely soul 💖
this could be damaging to some people. i am close with someone who has severe flashbacks that send them into a deep panic mode, where they totally dissociate and think that there are people in their house trying to attack and sexually assault them. i am pretty freaking sure that going toward that type of trigger is the answer to getting rid of it. they are in intensive therapy & incorporating all kinds of techniques to cope with the effects of these flashbacks and traumas so that one day they will be able to live in peace. suggesting they go near people who want to assault them, or suggesting they visit those experiences in their head, or watch movies or hear stories about being attacked, in order to desensitize them, would be hugely re-traumatizing. this is totally against the advice any trauma therapist would give. this video needs way, way more nuance, or it could lead someone to completely overload their nervous system.
I agree. Especially with severe CPTSD, this advice can be really harmful. I see the angle she is coming from, but there are way to many levels of PTSD and trauma. A blanket statement and way of treating it doesn't hold. I wish this video got updated or taken down. There's so much bad info on this topic it's scary. Making it worse. There needs to be a safe place for PTSD and CPTSD individuals to get information which is accurate and safe. Finding a proper professional seems paramount to healing safely rather than re-triggering and causing worsening of the issues.
Thanks, I really needed something like this.
Thank you always so helpful and I enjoy listening and watching your videos.😌🙏🏻😌
You are extremely insightful and uplifting. I feel like I see you introducing holistic methods such as energy healing &/or tapping into your practice.🙏
Thank you so much. I had no idea how to explain what I feel when I'm scared but you explained it so easily
Thank you Thank you.
Omg I'm crying 😢 thanks
Your videos have helped me a lot. Thank you❤
I've been watching your videos and just want to say thank you. I feel like I understand so much more and have a direction to work in to get out of this cycle. I could write so much more but really just wow thank you for making videos💞🌷🌹✨💐🌻
CPTSD is the result of an emotional brain injury from childhood rejection, abuse or even a long term traumatic relationship. The problem with CPTSD is that often cognitive help is not enough, there has to be lots of different types of help given. You cant always logically think through every problem. I mention this as many sites only mention PTSD which is very different to Complex post traumatic stress disorder. The flashbacks are emotional flashbacks not particularly attached to a single event as in PTSD, but trauma over a long period of time. With me for example the first three years of my life with rejection and mistreatment from a mother with schizophrenia, and later a 22 year marriage to a very damaged child abuse survivor which dismantled me piece by piece because of the emotional intensity of it all. Hence, Complex. I think therapy in a nutshell (of which I have subscribed) has some great videos, and very helpful, so I'm not criticising anything, just spreading awareness of CPTSD.
Losses from childhood abuse unhealthy relationship attachments thru out life how does a person heal from the trauma of unhealthy attachments due to childhood abuse
Important question. Any replies ? ❔❔🔍
It's not necessarily 100% in your control, but I think the best way to get rid of something unhealthy is with something healthy. Abuse during childhood can be reversed a little with the love of a caring friend. But if life carries on teaching you people are dangerous, you can't magically unlearn this. Generally the point of therapy or things like this is learning that your situation has changed and old lessons can be challenged. No change in situation, nothing to unlearn, sad truth. Usually our lives change a little at least and we can make change to some degree, over time, so not hopeless.
This only applies to certain scenerios. If the trigger is a person avoidance is key.
Thanks for this. Very useful and helpful.
Thank you! This video helped me! All the best
So clear explanation! Thank you ❤️
I am using a notebook taking notes about this series. I am seeing a therapist now but your content is really AMAZING.
Wow, so many good points here! Great explanation and breakdown!
I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO
I’m so greatful for your videos. You have been such a blessing to my life! I do wish you were my counselor.
Julia
I know I'm over a year late, but I suffered trauma from a non-severe car accident just a year ago. So when ever we have to drive across that three-way turn while coming home from my gymnastics, my anxiety triggers and I fear that a car is going to turn out in front of us while we're going like what happened in the accident. Not only that, but I get butterflies in my stomach and i tense/freeze up for a minute. My anxiety also triggers when a car pulls into into the lane to the left of us. It looks like it's going to collide and always makes me nervous. This video helped me so much. I can't thank you enough. ❤️
This is similar to my experience. I was in a car accident a few years ago in a mountain. Though I was completely unhurt, I've been really nervous about travelling in mountains since then. Especially the sharp turns, since it had happened on a sharp turn and we almost fell off of the mountain, but a swift turn saved us! The next year, everytime I travelled in a mountain, that's all I could remember. But now it's a lot better, and I'm barely afraid of mountains anymore. I can finally enjoy the car rides without being paranoid every second :))
Grateful I ever discovered your videos..you are so helpful!!! 💕
glad I can help :)
Excellent stuff thanks 😊
This was awesome 👏🏾 ❤ the right to it information thank you 🙏🏾
You are great!! Thank you for what you do! :)
I want to thank you for this video. What you saying is that healing can also happen outside therapy . Thanks for that
Thank you that really helped 🙏
Thank you for helping me understand
You're welcome
Thank you for providing great content for PTSD and Anxiety. I subscribed several month ago. It has been 10 yrs. since my 48 yr old husband's unexpected death. The circumstances surrounding his death caused severe trauma = PTSD. I appreciate your providing content about avoidance. In a nutshell, all pun intended, I am a trained therapist who understands how to work with with the conscious and sub-conscious mind, grounding techniques, etc. however, I still am unable to overcome my PTSD triggers. In fact they have accelerated to the point of a Panic attack and within seconds I am unable to get air into my lungs. I cannot breath so I am unable to use a breathing technique to ground myself. My most recent episode was during an MRI. I have had several MRI's however this time being constrained triggered a full blown panic attack. I had to stop the MRI and reschedule. Avoidance is possibly the culprit however even though I recognize that, I am am being caught off-guard ie. several MRI's and suddenly I am unable to go through the process. I moved to an extremely small town 5 years ago. Getting in to see a Therapist is a 4 hr drive. Do you have a course that may help? Thank you in advance for any and all help.
I will share my story of 'PTSD through trauma' as it is a little different and may help others.
If only to recognise these issues that I think many people have.
Firstly, let me thank you so much for making these videos - they are very helpful.
Big thumbs up.
My story, sorry if it is long but it's important to explain my situation.
I have been diagnosed with PTSD through religious trauma.
Many decades ago my church thought it was a good idea to scare young children with the 'living fear of hell'.
Their idea was if you scare the children enough they will never leave that 'faith'.
They did this with repeated very graphical images and sounds of screaming while being told horror stories of hell.
Sometimes they would bring out 'that small bottle' which was the worst for an under 5 year old child I can tell you.
It contained sulphur and they would make you smell it while holding hot water bottles on your arms.
All this with the screaming sounds, graphical images and hideous stories of constant burning.
It sort of worked, I remained a Christian for many decades but could never shake this trauma which left me with the worst nightmares each night. Waking in a cold sweat screaming out to wake the whole house.
It lasted for decades and was no fun.
Eventually, to better know this god I research. Actual real research and not from apologetics websites.
This also took me to therapy which I still have to do to this day to manage my PTSD.
I think because the trauma happened at such a young age and for so long it was reinforced through many decades of time so it is different to move away from.
Previously, to actual real and helpful therapy my church would try to cast out demons which of course is nonsense but I did not know this at the time. Bell, book and candle is no substitute for real therapy!
My research allowed me to realise the false nature of the alleged supernatural world so I became a non believer.
I had no choice as a person needs to first be convinced of a claim before they can believe.
Finding out the truth, I had no good reasons to remain convinced of the nonsense that filled the head of an under five year old child.
I find it interesting that at last religious trauma has finally been recognised and people can receive help for this.
My hope is that childhood indoctrination before the age of critical thinking is banned just as smoking in a car with young children is banned now here in the UK.
The problem is the world's religions rely too much on this indoctrination method of children and there is too much money (like the tobacco industry) to effect a change. Plus many of the adults are the ones making these decisions and they are effected themselves by their own indoctrination.
I urge anyone with such beliefs to think back to when they first heard about their particular deity. Who was it from and when did they learn about it?
With what evidence other than, 'of course there is a god' now shut up and eat your lunch.
If anyone reading this has 'just always' know about their god, chances are they too were indoctrination by their families and slightly worse, their families didn't even know they were doing it as it was done to them.
My hope is better education will eventually stop this geographically based religions (Hindus in Nepal, Christians in the USA bible belt, Muslim in Iraq etc) and people will stop filling the heads of young children with 'their' beliefs if whatever the claims cannot be substantiated.
Let them get to 18 years of age and then tell them about all the worlds religions together.
They will have their own critical thinking skills to determine the truth.
If it is true then it will be shown to be true at the age of 18.
Personally I wished I were born in these times as I feel we are slowly coming out of the dark ages.
60-70 years ago people did not understand the importance of therapy and that we all have mental health needs.
I honestly hope this story helps someone else.
Once again thank you so much for your content "Therapy in a Nutshell" you are just amazing.
Excellent channel.
Very best to all - stay safe and well.
Thank you so much this information is life changing to those of us who don’t have help 💓
Your not alone. I also have no help in dealing with my PTSD and i have health insurance!!! Its embarrassing and exhausting to live with. I watch as many videos as i can to help me find different ways to deal with it.
@@sparkyrosatch2770 That's what abusers and the lower vibeation people and the matrix want us to think and feel: alone and helpless
That is not the real truth.
We know this in our hearts and souls.
Great stuff !
Wow thank you so much!
Beautiful thank you.
I know a guy who is a paraplegic due to an IED. He is convinced he will never get over his PTSD. EVER. He deals with it the best he can, he says.
Excellent video.
This is counter to treatment protocols for Complex PTSD aka Childhood Trauma where facing triggers and reliving childhood trauma actually retraumatizes the brain, making the symptoms worse.
So does this mean if i keep thinking about anxiety inducing things from the past it will only make it worse?
Thanks for sharing!
Very helpful.
That is not always the case. I've done the work and still triggered by loud noises and shouting arguing. Something make us SICK CUZ IT'S SIMPLY DAMAGING TO THE MIND! EVERY1 HAS A DIFF TRESHOLD!
I have the same trigger. Even if I hear kids screaming with excitement and playing loudly outside I think some one is getting attacked.
what do you do when you get triggered to get out of that triggered state? it's so bad for me it's like my brain shuts off and I can't breathe. has anything helped you?
Thank you.
Clearly has never had an episode...lol, bless your heart.
THANK YOU! 🧠
Great Explanation
Thank you 😊
Thanks so much.
Thank u. ❤
Thanks
Well i did that alot.. i kept overhearing my anxiety and did things anyway and it didn’t go away, it got worse and worse. To the point where a trip outside to my postmail was a trigger.. i’m told that i have overexposed.. and need to learn not to overexpose and don’t do things that gives me anxiety.. so apparently it is a very fine line between exposion and overexposion..
oh my gish thank you… so much!
I cried listen to this
Thank you ❤️
But how do you sit through it when it’s scary as hell and you feel like you’re losing your mind?
Yeah true this video doesn’t really go in too deep with it
She doesn't know much about PTSD, nothing really!
Lol...tried this, makes the episode last longer. Makes you instantly engage the flight response. Sitting in a moment of trauma increased my anxiety, it intensified, not abated. Each episode I tried this technique just made me more anxious for longer periods of time. Didn't work for me. The only thing that breaks the loop for me is physically leaving the room or area I'm in. Yes, I am obeying my flight response by doing this, but the aim at that moment is to make it stop, not make it worse. Perhaps in a controlled environment this technique could help, after several hundred tries. The practicality of having a flashback in a public place and "sticking with it" is going to turn you into a head case in front of very un understanding, careless sympathetic people. Just leave the room, it's less traumatizing. How do I know? I tried this technique at work. Had a panic attack, no one gave a shit, just treated me like a disease after that. Had to quit that job. Couldn't deal with the wierdness from them. Just leave the room.
this video is harmful and damaging. please do not sit through it, try a grounding exercise. look up the "safe place" exercise. emma even has a video on it. this video is not good. (you may also want to try EMDR therapy.)
thank you
So good
thanku ❤
Exposure therapy is great
I am trying to help myself and my uncle
@Therapy in a Nutshell
Thanks..I needed this 😭
Mon,28 dec,2020 7.37 pm
ive seen u b4 and was happy to click into this tonight n see u i like how u speak n deliver stuff n u pack alot in a short video but its swallowable, thanks for ths so much , and its nice ot see u reply to ur comments or well im not sure why w1 was pinned by u hmm ive subcribed btw thanks again
I’ve often worked through the triggers I’ve had, the more manageable ones anyway, and one of them I finally no longer feel bothered by, yay! Only took me several years haha… but today I realized I had another trigger but it was much more intense than I expected.. my body got hot and I felt sick and extremely anxious, as if I was right back in that moment from 2011/2012 ! I was able to rationalize it , telling myself that I’m not in that time anymore and I shouldn’t have to feel that way, but even though my brain knew I was safe my body felt different. And I wanted to have a total breakdown because I thought I had overcome that nightmare but feeling those negative feelings made me think that all those years of healing were not enough. But I know that isn’t the case… so that’s why it’s 5 in the morning and I’m going through YT videos on being triggered haha… I know I can reassure myself and talk about why I feel the way I do instead of avoiding the trigger because I refuse to let it control my life. I’m capable of grounding myself and getting through it to the understanding that I need.
I feel like a rattle snake every single day, and no one is listening to my rattle, so I have to strike anything and everything that comes near me!
What should we do if a loved one is experiencing a trigger? Is there anything we can do to make it easier for them?
Show them this video
Help them focus on the present or physical affection (hugs, hold their hand)
If you give them a lot of care and physical affection like hugs it will really make them feel so much calmer and safer
Hi! I had an accident while driving truck. I didn’t know what happened. My truck went straight to the curve. I drove before my accident alone for 7 months. But that accident changed everything. After that accident I felt my car and truck are going like the same way on curves. I tried so many times in trucking job after that but i failed. I felt afraid. I don’t know what happened to me and how I will get out from this. Bcoz now I am doing odd jobs and wanna go to trucking again. It’s now one year and I m still not able to drive trucks. Please help me.
Clear explanation. I can see this work in normal anxiety-related issues. But Ptsd? You mean sending a veteran back to the war field so he learns it is safe there? Be happy that his mate got shot and he not? Of course, I don't think that you mean this but I do find it a bit confusing to use confrontation techniques with PTSD.
She knows nothing about PTSD!
i completely agree. this video is bad news. i absolutely adore this channel and love almost every video of hers i've seen. they've been so helpful to me. but this one needs to be deleted.
Thnx ❤️
Oops, I was halfway through a bong hit when you said I could be using drugs as a distraction… uhhhh I think you’re right but at least I’m watching this video right? Last week I couldn’t even remember a big portion of my trauma and now I’ve processed a lot of that and have accepted I have PTSD. Rn I’m going to learn the skills for change while I still smoke and then put the change into action. I will say since dealing with that traumatic experience I’ve had a natural decrease in the cravings to smoke. Like I’m not high all the time and I’m totally okay with that when before I would never be sober from the second I woke up to when I went to sleep so I’m a way I am doing a bit better. Hopefully I come back to this comment and have healed even more
Is there a link to this video?????. I Love This Video. Thank you.
I’m crying. I don’t want to hurt myself.
Easier said than done triggers are so overwhelming signaling danger so it feels real this is what im dealing with ptsd especially with a family member whos mentaly abusive to me so i avoid them which isnt a bad thing in my eyes lol
Thanks for helping me so much. i was traumatized at a disturbing video nad i needed help. wont share the video because i dont wanna scare others. hope you reply
Good job. I put this into practice and it worked. But my wife is an ass and just relentless so I noped out of your advice and raged back into the typical anger-argument cycle. Will try again.
Just today I think I experienced my first trigger ever, and I say I think because I have never been diagnosed with ptsd or anxiety or anything of that sort and the last thing I want is to disrispect or ofend someone that actually has those problems by assuming that I have them too.
So I was in school (Im in the last semester of highschool) and a classmate made a "mean" comment (I know that she didn't mean to make me feel so bad, she apologized to me afterwards), my enmediate feeling was anger, but some minutes later I started to cry a little bit, then I started having troubles breathing; at that point my math teacher had realized that something was going on, he asked me if I was ok, I said that I was and inmediately went to the restroom, there, I started to cry with such feelings of fear and anxiety that I hadn't felt in years. I don't say it a lot but I was bullied a good part of my life, I felt exactly the same that when I was a kid and most of my classmates were assholes to me tbh, and made me feel like shit. It was horrible, I meditate a lot and not even with mindfullnes and breathing techniques managed to stop those feelings.
Oh you are so calming. Do you take clients. I need a good trauma support for a little while
I have PTSD and I HATE it it won't go away.
This is great. My only problem is finding the full talk in the description box below??
(There are too many options - I don't know where to find it). 😔
Thanks
Lisa 🙏🏽
You mentioned, that you work with people who have hard time because of eating noises. Is there a video, in which you talk about how to get over misophonia? It would really help.
I can't see the link you refer to for a longer version of this.. Where is it please?
0:10 Thousands of the second is how your fast the body is triggered in one study.
I just saw a Guy who shot himself with a shotgun and his head popped... I’m really scared because i always see the video on my mind. It made my anxiety went up and I’m really scared :(
ellieiscool i'm sorry you saw that, i hope you are in a safe place and have someone you can reach out to. anxiety and fear are totally ok to feel as is any other emotion, as what you saw was upsetting
i saw a video of a woman get run over by a slow moving vehicle and watched her body get folded in half as the vehicle went over her and stopped while she was still underneath, then saw people run to help her - i get scared, sad and anxious every time i think about it and replay it in my head, i feel so scared for her and angry and sad that she got hurt and quite possibly died - i know i'm safe and that it didn't happen to me, it jist makes me sad that people get hurt, and it makes me sad that you are scared and anxious
ara sauvage tysm!! i hope u get well too
This is something that can be treated with EMDR pretty good
The same thing happened to me! I know what you're talking about, it really traumatized me. Just know you aren't alone, he's safe in heaven now and probably happy. Death is always scary no matter what the cause may be. You are safe 🤗 have a virtual hug.
My father had a heart attack 10 years ago when I was 16. The day before the attack he burped continuously which imitated acid reflux. He did have a surgical procedure and recovered . However since then I have struggled with extreme fear of losing him. Whenever I heard him burp all these years I started to have a major anxiety/panic attack. There were many nights I barely slept imagining any time I could lose him.Any minor inconvenience to his health, my mind gets triggered and I suffer from extreme fear. His health has been deteriorating as he is older now and my anxiety episodes are getting worse and more frequent. I have developed major triggers whenever he burps, yawns or even coughs. As I live with him there is no chance I could avoid these sounds. I am really tired of this suffering. Somebody please help🙏🏻
Could you please tell us about Somatic Therapy ?
I looked on the website linked and Udemy and I don’t see a course called “rewiring the anxious brain.” I would really like to take this course. what is the exact title on the therapy in a nutshell website?
This is great for me,I moved away from an very abusive ex-husband for 34 years,I arrived and there were work men still working,it's a new build,it's the same work as my ex-husband,the noise from machinery,smells of tarmac,all sorts of things but I was so happy to have moved,and I knew they wouldn't be there forever,3 months they are still here and one of them started to become annoying keep ringing my buzzer and asking things, telling me about his sex life it was like listening to my ex husband,my muscles were tightening as I was talking to him,he even called me lairy exactly what I used to get called then two days later police rang my buzzer it's what I was supposed to be not having to deal with, although the police was for a neighbor,I froze immediately,then done the usual took flight and ran off,not a good idea when in a strange place,never doing it again but need to learn how to cope with triggers and flashbacks
if you don't mind me asking, how do you get out of being triggered or having a flashback in the middle of that moment? so sorry, I am not sure if I said that clearly. I hope you are doing better today.