It sounds like you're having good therapies, but it takes fucking ages to counter what was done in our young years. The 4F types (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn), and their positive and negative attributes. It just needs to be calmed down and in time that can happen.
You've done and are doing nothing wrong when this happens. It also didn't start for no reason and you can't traumatise yourself. It's actually helped keep you safe to the best of your abilities.
It's a horrible experience, embarrassing and all of that, however it's your body trying to take care of you. I would specifically recommend books by Deb Dana because her books explain it but then focus on the practical aspect of it ie doing exercises, rather than going into extended depth about the theoretical side (which is dry and at the end of the day, not helpful in a practical way!).Īnyway OP don't worry or feel bad that it happens to you. Fawning- also called the please and appease response is actually a trauma response in addition to fight, flight and freeze.
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Polyvagal Theory (sounds more complicated than it is!) can help with learning how to monitor how you are feeling in general and the run up to freezing (or dissociating of panic attacks). I don't try to unfreeze whole scale because for me that doesn't work. I try to move a toe on one foot, then more toes then the toes on the other foot, then the ankle, then a little finger and so on. When I'm frozen then I'm fighting to get out of it. Like nothing else matters in those moments other than keeping away from the freezing. Or shake my limbs out depending where I am. So I'd get up and move, or force myself to keep walking. However, in the face of trauma, it can be taken to the extreme and become something wearing and unhealthy for your body. Healthy stress responses aren't inherently bad as it helps you assert yourself in short-term situations. These can occur when faced with a situation that feels. You’ve probably heard of other trauma responses such as fight, flight, and freeze. One widely accepted concept is that the thinking brain (neo-cortex) is often automatically dominated by the mid-brain (in. Trauma specialists define these reactions as neurobiological responses to threat. So first I trained myself to notice the micro-moments leading up to freezing so I could try and divert it. Fight, flight, freeze, fawn: the four types of trauma response. This may be a trauma response known as fawning. Responses to danger are physiological reactions traditionally known as fight, flight and freeze (sometimes called collapse) (Cannon, 1932).
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