Then I have amazing musical, poetic and spiritual aspects than come in and perform beautiful creative works that are very healing and restorative and/or remind me of love, hope, redemption, forgiveness, inner strength and beauty etc. RT ResilientDad: Trauma is one of the biggest overlooked health problems. Mothering myself seems to be very key, even holding myself and stroking my arms and face sometimes. I have other other functional alters or parts of me, and some are very childlike or adolescent or even baby and need to be mothered by myself and other support people. Giving that not well part a name means it's not the whole of me, just a part that's been very damaged from gaslighting, abuse, neglect and too much trauma. I've just recently, dubbed my most unwell part "the crazy lady in the attic" inspired by Jane Eyre and the prequel by Joan Rhys Wide Sargasso Seas. I'm starting to be very mindful of compartmentalizing and the use of alters. Fawn mode is when you people please to keep the peace and Freeze mode is when you get stuck, not able to act or react to anything, you just stay quiet and small.
Flight mode is when you run away and evade problems / issues. Whether it was connecting and expressing on here, or talking with my trauma counsellor on the phone or spending time with peers, I've had a marked improvement from a very contracted, triggered, dissociative highly-dysfunctional state of late. VERY simplified Fight mode is when you are stuck in a reacting / taking action sort of mode.
The four trauma responses most commonly recognized are fight, flight, freeze, fawn, called the 4 Fs of trauma. I also resorted to a bit of alcohol which I'm not real happy about but it eased the unbarableness of my quite acute symptoms. Living with ADHD and CPTSD Sant mentale A trauma response is the reflexive use of over-adaptive coping mechanisms in the real or perceived presence of a trauma event. What has worked for me lately, as I've been really not good, and the foggy, i call dirty-cotton-wool-in-my-cerebral feeling has been really bad lately but what keeps working for me, is communicating. I'm not working or studying formally at the moment either. I've been sleeping.loads but waking in the night loads so i then sleep half the day. Other than the blackouts which I have only had with my miscarriage in July and when I smoked pot, which I had to give up 7 yrs ago as it was making all the symptoms worse. Wow, i can really relate to a lot of what you are all saying.
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