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My T and I decided that we will begin trauma work next week. I have no idea what that entails and am a bit anxious about it. I asked my T, and he laughed saying, "Why, would that affect your decision?"....I said, "Maybe"....He said that we would work together on it. *sigh*
I sometimes have severe panic attacks....and each of those panic attacks brings me through every horrific event that has happened in my life. It's like one flashback after another, and I can't seem to stop them once it's happening.
My T said that the point in dealing with the trauma is to deal with the pain without having it be set off by a panic attack.
The problem is.....Knowing that I will be dealing with the trauma work next week will most likely cause panic before going into my next session. I'm worried that we won't be able to deal with just one thing at a time, because everything just floods back in at once.
How do I prepare myself to not feel panic....and to be able to separate the memories so that I'm not dealing with them all at once?
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