Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
Find support with others who have gone through a traumatic experience. Whether you have chronic or acute PTSD, we are here for you.
What we refer to as fear, is called the adrenal stress response or common man definition, our fight or flight mechanism.
It increases bp, heart rate and respiration, coagulants and pain killers are dumped along with cortisol and adrenaline.
We lose our fine motor skills, get tunnel vision, hearing is impaired and our minds freeze up.
Try accomplishing something using a complex skill under intense pressure, being late, missing an immediate guideline with real consequences.
Yea, it is overwhelming, the faster we try to catch up, the more frustrated we become.
This defense mechanism, this thing we fear, this thing that ignites the defense mechanism, powers PTSD.
We run because we fear our own trauma, stored in the amygdala as real danger, delusional in content and reality.
Visualize your last episode, cortisol and adrenaline jolting the nervous systems and see if this is the point where PTSD has greatest power for you.
Be aware of the body sensations during fight or flight firing, focus, breathe, observe.
Big Secret: PTSD is at its most powerful, most frightening, when our fight or flight mechanism fires.
It is also at its most vulnerable during this eruption.
I found it was my best opportunity to heal.
Learn to observe, focus on breath and feel the body sensations without judgement.
Improvement will be your reward.
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Out of date as it may be, the old five stages of grief model is so prevalent in public discourse that it provides a starting point for saying that unpleasant emotions are normal, emotions such as feeling angry or depressed. That allows for conversation about feeling fear to be seen as normal, too, in the way you mention here, mindful guy, and that we can release our fear safely.
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Many caregivers get Ptsd from being around a hospice home