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Originally Posted by sw628
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When i have a PTSD episode, it's usually triggered by something. Like if im alone and feel very lonely, a familiar smell, or maybe watching something on TV. When that happens i start to have flash backs of a particular traumatic event. I start to cry mostly and it it feels as if i am there once again. I feel the pain and anxiety of being there..yet I'm not. Growing up when this would happen, i would normally comfort myself with food. If this happens at night, I would sleep with the TV on. That was comforting to me and still is. It's such a scary place and everything around me seems unfamiliar. AND.. this is why I'm learning to ground myself with mindfulness techniques.  Hope this is helpful |
Im sorry that this happens to you, SW
I know how scary and strange it feels. This sounds like what happens to me, too. I just posted that ftt talks to me about ptsd reactions, but it hasnt really registered with me until now. I get triggered, like you said, and then everything feels like I am looking through a window. As if the things around me are made of plastic, if that makes any sense and I cannot come back from this plastic place. If I comforted myself with food as a child or teen, I could stay there and didnt have to come back. I was in this food-haze. It looks a little different now (what I do with food) but it does still have a simliar effect.
I know that scary place where everything seems unfamiliar. Id like to learn mindfulness techniques.