So you spend a lot of time and money talking to a therapist… You have behaviors/reactions that adversely affect your life… Therapist figures out its a traumatic event… How does that discovery help you change your behavior/reactions?
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For me, personally, I don’t want to speak for anyone else, but for me…. it helps to talk about it. To understand why I react the way I do in certain situations – the root of where it comes from.
As an example, I was tazed and robbed and it took a long time before I could leave my apartment in the evening and go to the store or get in my car, etc. Talking to someone about it + time + support around me, has helped me to take steps and move forward.
Breakthroughs are the bells going off and the understanding of why and where it comes from. Regarding another traumatic experience – I didn’t even remember it had happened until I started to really peel back the layers of my life.
Once I understood or saw, I could then place reactions into my present day and see where and why they happen.
Continuing therapy, I can bring up present day scenarios and work through what my mind and body have already been thru, the anxiety of what its afraid it may go thru again, prepare, let go, and then learn from it.
It’s the relationship with myself that I am constantly working on. There is no fix. There is a constant living with and learning and ultimately helping others as others have helped me 🙂
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