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struggling with mind numbing ptsd again - ideas?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jena" data-source="post: 229089" data-attributes="member: 4514"><p>Steely</p><p> </p><p>Hi, I kow there is so much going on for you right now and there has been for a while. Work just triggered it all to the surface maybe. Plus you have been thinking about so much lately also.</p><p> </p><p>I'm sorry you are having such a hard time, it can be so devastating I have been there. It makes no logical sense I know.</p><p> </p><p>I can only share what I did, I tried medication's I really did but they were horrible worse than i felt when I started. Than I tried quick hit's of xanax to relieve the overwhelming looming desperate panic attack feeling. I used to throw up at work and on train home. The xanax for me wasn't a good option because quite honestly handling kids i'd need to pop one with how i was every few hours. </p><p> </p><p>So, when I started to detach i knew it was time to make some long term changes becaues that scared me alot.</p><p> </p><p>I began learning breathing techniques and skills to lessen my anxiety level. I used yoga breathing at times without the yoga (it kills my back), than i also found allowing myself to grieve for what it was that was upsetting me actually helped. I spent 20 years running from mine. So, I just allowed myself to just break down, cry, not go to work when necessary break down to build back up if that makes any sense at all to you.</p><p> </p><p>Meditation was huge by the way. It was a small amt of time every morning spent just with me calming my mind, which by the way wasnt an easy task yet that with the breathing started to do the trick. I still do it now when i feel myself becoming overwhelmed.</p><p> </p><p>I think your amazing, I think you have gone through alot and kept shoving thru it all and being powerful and strong. I think that maybe just maybe this incident with the worker/boss thing just brought what had to be dealt with up to the surface?? to kinda let you know hey i'm still here work with me sort of thing.</p><p> </p><p>I can't speak more of the mediation in the a.m.'s I know it stinks and i thought wow why do i have to do this it isn't fair i just want to go, go live my life. Yet it's the reality of who I am now. If i dont' take these steps when I need them i'd def need medication with-o a doubt. There are some days my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is so bad, compiled with the ptsd carp i think i could still benefit.</p><p> </p><p>ok i have no idea if that was any help. just be gentle to yourself you have come thru a storm and out the other end of it. These phone calls also are new and i would imagine a bit odd and unfamiliiar also. Your adapting to alot of new stuff right now, and ther'es more to come, great great stuff.</p><p> </p><p>(((hugs)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jena, post: 229089, member: 4514"] Steely Hi, I kow there is so much going on for you right now and there has been for a while. Work just triggered it all to the surface maybe. Plus you have been thinking about so much lately also. I'm sorry you are having such a hard time, it can be so devastating I have been there. It makes no logical sense I know. I can only share what I did, I tried medication's I really did but they were horrible worse than i felt when I started. Than I tried quick hit's of xanax to relieve the overwhelming looming desperate panic attack feeling. I used to throw up at work and on train home. The xanax for me wasn't a good option because quite honestly handling kids i'd need to pop one with how i was every few hours. So, when I started to detach i knew it was time to make some long term changes becaues that scared me alot. I began learning breathing techniques and skills to lessen my anxiety level. I used yoga breathing at times without the yoga (it kills my back), than i also found allowing myself to grieve for what it was that was upsetting me actually helped. I spent 20 years running from mine. So, I just allowed myself to just break down, cry, not go to work when necessary break down to build back up if that makes any sense at all to you. Meditation was huge by the way. It was a small amt of time every morning spent just with me calming my mind, which by the way wasnt an easy task yet that with the breathing started to do the trick. I still do it now when i feel myself becoming overwhelmed. I think your amazing, I think you have gone through alot and kept shoving thru it all and being powerful and strong. I think that maybe just maybe this incident with the worker/boss thing just brought what had to be dealt with up to the surface?? to kinda let you know hey i'm still here work with me sort of thing. I can't speak more of the mediation in the a.m.'s I know it stinks and i thought wow why do i have to do this it isn't fair i just want to go, go live my life. Yet it's the reality of who I am now. If i dont' take these steps when I need them i'd def need medication with-o a doubt. There are some days my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is so bad, compiled with the ptsd carp i think i could still benefit. ok i have no idea if that was any help. just be gentle to yourself you have come thru a storm and out the other end of it. These phone calls also are new and i would imagine a bit odd and unfamiliiar also. Your adapting to alot of new stuff right now, and ther'es more to come, great great stuff. (((hugs))) [/QUOTE]
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