Hi, Seth. I had, in 2013 and 2017, a vertigo attack. Since it didn’t stop, I had to call an ambulance, and the other time I went to the hospital, I’ve seen specialists, but they couldn’t find any physical issues. I’m worried it’ll happen again. Now, when I’m in social situations, I feel dizziness, which comes up from the neck and head, and I have anxiety, which makes it worse. I’ve got generalized anxiety and early trauma as well. What can I do?
Call Tag: early trauma
How do I go about everyday life when I feel a lot of healthy aggression?
This is my third SBSM and this is the first year in my life I’ve experienced burnout. About five times now where I’ve had to rest for one to two weeks to recover. It usually follows work stress or people that drain me, or doing too much. I had high anxiety for years and then completely shut down before I started somatic work. I had never experienced burnout in my entire life before this. It seems I actually have to do less now with more capacity. Why? If I’m becoming more regulated, am I having less tolerance for stress?
I have an extensive amount of dental trauma starting at age two. I now have a good dentist and a hygienist, but my mouth still feels like a war zone. And anyone doing work in my mouth feels incredibly violating. I had a cleaning last week and I can still feel the excess tension I’m carrying in my head, neck, and face from that experience. Do you have any suggestions on how I can release the survival stress after dental work or reduce the activation during procedures?
Sometimes I find myself trying to force things to come up in this work, like feelings and movements. I have preverbal trauma and I know trauma is related to being forced to do things, including sexual trauma. When I try to force things to come up, it feels like I’m violating myself, and I wonder in these instances, if I’m tapping into the energy of my trauma. It feels like I’m playing out both parts, victim and perpetrator, inside myself. Does this make sense? And any advice for working with this?
I’m having trouble staying with the sensations in my body. A lot of fear comes up when I do this. There must be something wrong with me. The start of a disease or a health concern. I suspect this is related to preverbal trauma and just not feeling safe in my body. Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with this?
I have pre-verbal trauma and I’m halfway through SBSM, having started in April and taken my time. I find with every lab I burp excessively during the process and not at any other time. Is this a release of storage survival stress that will resolve on its own, or a coping mechanism? And does it mean that I need to slow down even more with the process?
For 25 years, half of my life, my brain starts shutting down at sunset, and it’s worse in winter. I feel drugged, disoriented for hours once it’s fully dark. I can’t do much to affect it. It’s hard to stay present, so I end up making it worse by zoning out on my computer. Early childhood trauma with disassociation, yet this feels different. I’ve had 20 years of insomnia and my nervous system is extra sensitive to change. If early trauma is related to darkness, meaning if this experience is rooted in early trauma that’s related to darkness, why would it take 25 years to express? What are your thoughts and suggestions?
What are ways to help myself come out of freeze, please? My body has a very strong tendency to freeze without trying to fight or flight first. I’m taking medication for 14 months and psychotherapy for 21 months, and still this pattern is in full swing. I dedicated the whole 13 months being on sick leave to work on my complex trauma. How much longer could this take? Of course, I know it’s individual, but what are rough numbers from your experience
“I have some pretty significant preverbal shock trauma. When I have built enough capacity to release this, what might it look like? Can it come on without warning? Might it bring me to my knees? Since it’s preverbal, knowing what I know from my experience with psychedelics, will it be messy, and childish, and confusing? I guess I’m just curious if it might come out of nowhere and resemble having to, like, go to the bathroom really badly and not being able to hold it