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Little Thoughts is a mental health and lifestyle blog written by a twenty-something from Kent.

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How I'm healing trauma trapped in the body

So after four more months of dizziness, neck, head, tension and sleep problems, I went back to EMDR. So I spoke to a trauma specialist, who explained that I’d essentially given myself new strength and headspace to deal with unprocessed trauma and told me to look into body work – and that’s where my research started. The Body Keeps the Score for months on and off (there’s a heck of a lot of info to take in, but very good) and in the book there’s a whole section about yoga. He diagnosed hypnopompic hallucinations which I won’t go into too much here because there’s a lot and it’ll be a separate post I imagine but the gist of it is that I wake up in the night, see horrid things and go back to sleep.

I tried CBD for PTSD and here's what happened

Anyway, I looked into different options based on results from health websites and the recommendations of others like reiki, going to a sleep clinic, waiting to see if more therapy helped, but the same thing kept cropping up time and time again: CBD. n’t make me immediately sleepy as you might expect, I just go to bed when I feel ready as I did before) and I started to dream the same sort of thing I always dream when I’m having a night terror (there is a common theme with mine, and you know it’s not a nightmare What happened when I gave it more time Within a week I could tell that my morning dose of CBD was wearing off sort of early afternoon time, my fuzzy tension head and difficulty focusing would be back just like before, but I was also aware that I needed to use it consistently and for a few weeks to feel the true benefits, so I adjusted it very slightly to start with, by reducing my morning and evening doses a little and adding another one in the middle (not taking any more, just spreading it out). After trying this out for a bit I figured that my current CBD intake was successfully preventing my night terrors and taking an edge off of day-to-day shitness, but there was still a definite awareness of stress and tension, my hands would still subtly shake sometimes (as opposed to like, ALL the time, so this is still an improvement) brain fog creeping in a bit more often than

On going back to therapy

It was the first treatment out of three that I found effective, it made me feel brave enough to leave a job I wasn’t right for, I was blogging a lot and getting really stuck in to writing about mental health and being a part of Twitter’s mental health community, it was Winter, and towards the end of my treatment I started feeling really, really strong. , I’m finally starting the degree I should’ve signed up for like five years ago I’ve still dealt with all of the things I have and I’m still managing a lot of this thanks to things I learned in therapy as well as the actual EMDR itself. I’m trying to look at this as simply a new phase of my recovery: I’ve dealt with the rest of the super problematic, overwhelming stuff and it made way for this.

The unspoken symptoms of PTSD

Often PTSD is understood and represented to cause physical flashbacks in your body – the same physical sensation or experience that your trauma gave you. Some people don’t get physical flashbacks often, but they are emotionally tormented by the replaying of their experiences – for example, let’s say that the trauma is a car crash, someone might not experience their flashbacks as feeling the physical pain they experienced at the time as a result of an injury, but they relive it all emotionally. ‘PTSD nightmares’ are often shown in films or TV programs, the war veteran waking up out of breath, in a sweat, but you never see what actually happens for a lot of people: the shouting or screaming, the sleep walking or physically ‘running away’. the author talks a lot about what happens in the brain as a result of PTSD and the brain scans that he has seen over his career, showing that PTSD brains are literally different –

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