My Support Forums - View Single Post - Dear T: I Really Need to Tell You Something, but I Don't Know How...Part XXX

Mar 02, 2018, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by WarmFuzzySocks

You are so very concrete. You keep talking about coping skills.

Stupid flashbacks, or whatever the hell. I already know what to do to COPE.

I already know how to breathe.
I am the Queen of Grounding.
I should get a shiny blue Coping Skills prize ribbon and pin it to my shirt.

I want to figure out how to stop being blindsided in the first place.

I think flashbacks are the mind and body's way of attempting to process trauma. It is an imprecise and distressing means of processing but it's the only way the mind and body has. Does your T do EMDR?