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Hi guys
So suffering from PTSD, social phobia and other anxiety disorders makes you hypersensitive to stress, am I right?
So my question is, what do you do when you've worked out your ptsd-triggers and have gotten out of your deprrssion and have started to relax around other people, but you are still as sensitive to stress as ever?
To give you some insight into my specific case, I had a severe depression and a lot of anxiety as a result of childhood bullying. I have always been a good academic and chose a hard school, but brcause of my fatigue and inability to concentrate I was always behind and always stressed out to the.point where I could never relax.
Using the concepts of complex PTSD I have overcomr most of my problems and I even feel very good sometimes. The sheer panic I used to feel when someone didn't validate me like I wanted is completely gone, the toxic shame that used to completely disable me is something I can deal with.
I felt really good at the end of summer, I had gotten my ability to concentrate back, I wasn't tired all the time and so on. When school started I was excited for my classes and I could concentrate and think and it was great. But then we started to hand things in, and only having a deadline made me so stressed I or even know what was happening to us. We can gradually build our ability to say No! and Shut up! whenever we catch the critic attacking us. With enough healthy inner self-defense, the survivor gradually learns to reject her unconscious acceptance of self-abuse and or even know what was happening to us. We can gradually build our ability to say No! and Shut up! whenever we catch the critic attacking us. With enough healthy inner self-defense, the survivor gradually learns to reject her unconscious acceptance of self-abuse and self-abandonment. Her sense of healthy self-protection begins to emerge and over time grows into a fierce willingness to stop unfair criticism - internal or external.-abandonment. Her sense of healthy self-protection begins to emerge and over time grows into a fierce willingness to stop unfair criticism - internal or external. panicking. Now I can't sleep at night and can't relax. Ever. Anyone know what to do? I'm guessing it's some sort of conditioning/flashback to a time where I actually could not finish things on time.
So suffering from PTSD, social phobia and other anxiety disorders makes you hypersensitive to stress, am I right?
So my question is, what do you do when you've worked out your ptsd-triggers and have gotten out of your deprrssion and have started to relax around other people, but you are still as sensitive to stress as ever?
To give you some insight into my specific case, I had a severe depression and a lot of anxiety as a result of childhood bullying. I have always been a good academic and chose a hard school, but brcause of my fatigue and inability to concentrate I was always behind and always stressed out to the.point where I could never relax.
Using the concepts of complex PTSD I have overcomr most of my problems and I even feel very good sometimes. The sheer panic I used to feel when someone didn't validate me like I wanted is completely gone, the toxic shame that used to completely disable me is something I can deal with.
I felt really good at the end of summer, I had gotten my ability to concentrate back, I wasn't tired all the time and so on. When school started I was excited for my classes and I could concentrate and think and it was great. But then we started to hand things in, and only having a deadline made me so stressed I or even know what was happening to us. We can gradually build our ability to say No! and Shut up! whenever we catch the critic attacking us. With enough healthy inner self-defense, the survivor gradually learns to reject her unconscious acceptance of self-abuse and or even know what was happening to us. We can gradually build our ability to say No! and Shut up! whenever we catch the critic attacking us. With enough healthy inner self-defense, the survivor gradually learns to reject her unconscious acceptance of self-abuse and self-abandonment. Her sense of healthy self-protection begins to emerge and over time grows into a fierce willingness to stop unfair criticism - internal or external.-abandonment. Her sense of healthy self-protection begins to emerge and over time grows into a fierce willingness to stop unfair criticism - internal or external. panicking. Now I can't sleep at night and can't relax. Ever. Anyone know what to do? I'm guessing it's some sort of conditioning/flashback to a time where I actually could not finish things on time.
I withdrew from law school because I could not make myself care, my personal problems were too large.
I am now back at university after 20 odd years, and I initially panicked terribly. I was having to learn online, and keep track of due dates and such, and I would have an anxiety attack just thinking about the work.
This has worn away.
That's the thing: you can't constantly have the same shock reaction to the same thing, because it is no longer the same shock. So basically repeated exposure is the cure.
Repeated exposure with a new outcome: not dying, not being abused, etc etc. Enough repeats of this situation where the terror proved unnecessary is all it takes to make it stop happening, although I must say it can take few experiences to get you there, and very many to get you back.
:)