happyflowergirl:

Cranial work (or body work, on a larger scale) is most effective when there is a physical trauma associated with your psychological trauma. In my case, I fell on my head, which produced both a physical (concussion) and psychological (PTSD) fallout. When type of situation arises, it seems that the physical and psychological kind of wrap around each other and create a doubley problematic trauma, in which neither the physical body or the psyche recover properly (for instance if you broke your leg in a traumatic car accident the leg sometimes won't heal like it's supposed to).

While this is a total pain in the *** from a patient's stand point, it can be somewhat helpful in the way that since the two elements of a person's trauma (physical and psychological) are tied to one another, healing one element automatically has an effect on the other, and vice versa. In this way, a talk therapy breakthrough can alleviate chronic physical pain, and good physical therapy can cause psychological trauma to leak out as well. That's how cranio work can help treat PTSD.

In my case, this process was a bit messy. My trauma came at about 2am on my 21st birthday, so as these physical traumas in my skull were unlocking in the days following my cranio sacral appointments, I would get these psychological hiccups where all of a sudden I'd feel like ripping my shirt off and run around my house screaming "WOOOOO!!!!!" (this sounds like a lot more fun than it actually was, the whole process was egregiously uncomfortable to be perfectly honest, but it was still preferable to nothing happening at all... that persistent static-ey disconnection from reality was far worse). I was able to control myself and let these urges release without going hog wild like that, but it was just interesting how the body stores all of these sensations like that, and as they release you reexperience all of them, good or bad.