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Originally Posted by Jim Question: Should we then stop pushing her, or keep pushing? I am inclined to keep pushing regardless of the explosions. However if that's wrong I suppose I should consider changing my apporach. |
Ok, here is an easy thought to this Jim. Is your pushing her about daily tasks getting rid of traumatic emotional stressors, or creating more stress / emotions for her?
If she is exploding, then you answered it for yourself. You are creating more stress for her making her constantly explode, you are not removing stressors from her allowing her to cope better.
When you read that document I just released, you know then that her PTSD is a known entity, it doesn't get any less until such time as trauma therapy is performed, but you know it does increase every time stressors go into the cup, because PTSD feeds of fear, emotions, stress...
What do you believe you are solving by making her explode constantly? Is she removing any off her trauma by doing so? Are you trying to create the same block in which you create for soldiers in order to do their job? That type of tactic that your using I mean, is one you use to train soldiers, ie. push them to their limits so they find new limits, new boundaries within themselves, though at the same time, create a new block within their emotional cup and add a pause button to it, all of which she currently does not have, and honestly does not need to have, as it just adds to the long term problems.
There are other things that can be done in order to provide more room to move and cope, until such time as she begins trauma therapy and chips away at that big block of trauma sitting inside her. As that block is chipped away at, then not only is there more room daily to cope, but the block is now not so large, which means with every stressor going in, PTSD doesn't expand enough to impact a difference. A simple analogy I guess of what is occurring within Batgirl.
I believe the best person to tell you whether the above is accurate of her feelings, would be batgirl herself. There is no blanket statement for us all, pretty close, but not exact, so each of us uniquely must adapt these factors to what works best for us.