Thanks Echoes

And Faith_walks - one thing that really helps me is that I take many breaks in the hard stuff by doing easy stuff and fun stuff in between the hard stuff. That way my brain has a chance to process all those fast forward thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares and so on that come because of something done in therapy. For exanple after LL and I used the sand tray the result was lots of things didn't make sense thoughts every which way, couldnt get warm, my head was also mish mashing two different nightmare content into one so that I could not figure out what was going on. So the next time I saw LL I told her what was going on and I didn't want to work with the sand tray for a second round of it just yet. I needed time for my head and stuff to calm down before doing more sand tray work. We instead focused on doing relaxation visualizations during sessions, along with other things. I even put my home therapy projects on hold during those couple months when my head was bouncing here there and everywhere basically focusing more on drawing, painting, journaling. Then when things calmed down a bit I went back to work on a home therapy project I have going.

taking breaks when I need them instead of forcing myself to be all work work work definately helps keep things at a pace that I can both do the work needed but yet take time so that I don't end up pushing myself over the edge kind of thing.

Hang in there