23 Mar
Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence.
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In fact, many parts never take complete control of a person, but are only experienced internally.
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Frequent switching may be a sign of severe stress and inner conflict in most individuals.
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This why we feel conflicted at times, confused because our internal space is in turmoil from our childhood Trauma.
19 Mar
from Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation:
“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion. Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambitious stimuli as threatening, leading to more fear driven decisions. In people with dissociative disorder, certain parts are compelled to focus on the perception of danger. Living in trauma-time, these dissociative parts immediately perceive the present as being just “like the past” and emergency emotions such as fear, rage, or terror are immediately evoked, which compel impulsive decisions to engage in defensive behaviors (freeze, flight,flight, or collapse). When parts of you are triggered, more rational and grounded parts may be overwhelmed and unable to make effective decisions.”
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My take on this quote: Our PTSD ego (cognitive mind) interprets reality in a distorted, harmful way. This passage confirms my belief that the breathing track is needed so we do not freeze, flee, fight or collapse. Overwhelmed and unable to make effective decisions is not healing. We need to develop our focus directing our attention to now, instead of dissociating and fueling trauma. Simple if we practice everyday and with every breath.
7 Jan
martins-de-barros
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Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
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Sounds like our trauma thoughts and our choice to engage or observe!
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19 Sep
Cornelius Fraenkel
Behavior, as engaging random thoughts or emotions, fuels trauma. The first rule of healing is to stop digging and stabilize the nervous system. Building resilience in our nervous system, allows us to work on integrating our trauma.
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Acts of kindness for others or ourselves without concern for reward or pay, brings healing energy. The spotlight of PTSD fades for a little while, when we take five minutes and share our time with a needy stranger.
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Maybe you will make a needy person feel important or needed with kindness. Our actions travel out into the universe and bring a positive energy to the world.
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Aerobic exercise can deplete the cortisol levels, flush the poisons and bring achievement to the body/mind. This is available everyday to support our healing.
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Mental focus practice carries unlimited healing potential for us. Combine all this effort everyday, and heal a little every week. In a month, significant shifts in our nervous system, have been documented in the new neuroscience data.
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6 Sep
The Bridge
Learning to accept difficult times without judging them, brings so much freedom to our life. Times become tougher when Trauma activates and brings anxiety, fear and confusion.
5 Sep
Seed by Steven Kenny
Strong efforts to avoid any thoughts, feelings, or situations that might evoke traumatic memories
Amnesia, that is, inability to recall some or significant aspects of traumatizing events
Emotional numbness
Inability to enjoy life or feel love
Feelings as though you are on automatic pilot
Isolation and avoidance of other people
Reluctance to talk about traumatic experiences
17 Jul
Walnut_Shell_Helmet_by Steven Kenny
Flashbacks, that is, reliving some or all of the traumatizing event as though it is happening in the present.
Nightmares of traumatizing events or similar content.
Hallucinations, delusions, or illusions that are related to traumatizing events.
Severe, recurring anxiety reactions or panic, with heart palpitations, rapid breathing, sweating, and trembling, and a sense of impending doom.
Feeling paralyzed with fear or wanting to run away.
17 Jul
Elegant_Stinkhorn by Steven Kenny
These symptoms have been accepted as fact that some people experience a kind of dissociative shutdown in response to trauma.
Emotional Numbness
Physical Numbness
Blank Mind
Profound detachment
Inability to move or respond
Extreme drowsiness and even temporary loss of consciousness
