So I have a really interesting conversation with a friend today who had spoken to her therapist about how much she was struggling during this whole virus situation.
I believe her therapist gave her some really invaluable things to think about and it has certainly resonated with me about why I may be struggling so much.
She said that a lot of those who have childhood trauma are finding it particularly difficult as this situation means they are living with being unconsciously triggered every day by the situation. The feelings of isolation and being alone, loss of control, that nowhere is safe and you are trapped, finding it difficult to know who to trust and what information to trust, all of this triggers similar feelings that were experienced in childhood and essentially at the moment we are living in a world that is just one big trigger for the past and it is retraumatising.
It all makes so much sense! I know for me that this is probably exactly what is happening, but I hadn’t really thought about it in that way.
Have any of your Ts said anything similar?