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Originally Posted by Teacake
It feels like nothing but it is a state of hyperarousal masked by your body's natural opiates. This is the state we go into if we see an automobile accident is unavoidable.
It's best to come down from there. It is a psychologically dangerous place. Your body equates it with inescapable death. When you begin to come down you will be in high autonomic arousal. People can get reckless and hyperactive, even manic. That's why you need to know you are coming DOWN from that numb calm through hyperarousal, DOWN to parasympathetic calm.
If you are doing talk therapy and going numb you really need to stop doing trauma work and do ego building and other stuff. Don't retraumatise.
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So not hypervigilance, but arousal?
Former would be ADHD focus like, latter like ADHD emotions?
I would of thought numbness came from the vigilance than arousal, as things in vigilance is always there, just see when something draws attention. Like seeing something everywhere after becoming new interest but always been there.
Might be wrong though, seem to know couple more field words than me xD