I hear you, and it sounds really difficult. We do hear that a lot from many survivors. The important thing to know is the with these things you need to keep on doing breathing, "Grounding" and self soothing things. And you need to do them for a looooong time until things subside. Don't give up! 🙂 So grounding means doing something to bring yourself back into the real world away from the thoughts that are troubling you. So you can do things like open your eyes (if you are in the dark, turn on the light) and look around the room. Do things like count 5 things you can see, 5 things you can hear, 5 things you can smell. And keep on doing this until the stress subsides. you can also do something like run your hands under cold or warm water, or use something you can feel like a crystal or even a phone cover and explore it with your fingers.

With the breathing it takes a while, but it will eventually help to self soothe you...there is an App called Smiling mind which is a mindfulness breathing excercise which i really like myself.

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