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Old Oct 09, 2011, 01:42 PM
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TIred of starting over. But this one is listed as a "dissociative disorder specialist". She says that she has learned a new technique that works far better than "talk therapy" and that we're actually not going to re-traumatize me over all the details again and again. She is following the work of Dr. Peter A. Levine and it is all about bringing the nervous system back to calm, and just giving permission to self to notice what is happening in the body at any given time. Pretty interesting really. Pretty low key for the most part. When something comes up and she can see a change on my face, she'll just ask me to notice the sensations (being out of body for 32 years makes that challenging in itself). "That's therapy", she said to me last time. Whole new approach, she says. So, we'll see. And after 4 sessions, I've started walking myself through my own panic attacks. "I feel a fluttering in my chest. I notice my leg and arm muscles are tight. So are my neck and trunk of body muscles. I notice my eye tearing up." The symptoms then relieve themselves. Taking time to notice what is going on in my body gives me time to see I'm not really in danger (no reason for fight, flight, freeze).
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