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Hey #Dissociatwt we are reaching out more than normal and do appreciate your help. Bear with us on this thread. We get confused about how to approach/the difference between ‘grounding’ (to shift body/mind/emotions/sensations) and just distracting/other dissociative ‘skills’.
For example fear is rising in us and ‘I’ know which part of me it’s from because the time of year / weather & other factors means our mind is heading off down a flashback route. In a way we need to sit with it and say we are safe/ground/ allow feelings but it’s JUST TOO MUCH.
So ‘I’ will distract and move and do stuff to parcel it off and I will also (by doing stuff like this and talking in our head) let that part know I know how she is feeling. But really I know she needs to let the flashback happen and all of learn we can survive it.
So I will head out for a walk now and really truly hope we don’t get a thunder storm as then that definitely will trigger the flashback. We feel we can only process this with our T and if. It with our T the best we can do is shove it down and survive.
How do you all manage? Ends
How do you all manage? Ends
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