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- mainly depression, overwhelming sense of sadness, unable or unwilling to cry
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Sadly this is very normal. This one will take time in healing and learning your true self worth. You will learn you are a survivor and you are worth being better. Life does hold light for you.
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- feel pain inside, like it hurts my heart (sounds a bit dramatic but not sure how else to describe)
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Like your heart just gained 5 lbs and sank? It just won't feel right? That is like the depression above and takes the same. No patches for this but there are ways of thinking like making lists of thoughts to everyday things ie I
should or I used to be able and change them. Remove all shoulds. Should is a bad word now.
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- feel like someone is hurting me
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I am curious how? Is it the thought process or flashbacks? Just want more clarification.
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- feel like someone is going to get me
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CBT techniques will help here. It may feel very real as it may have been part of your life at one time, but it is not now. What is the real possibility now? Think about it. This works with repetition for months. And don't watch the damn news! Relaxation methods in time can help ease this. When I am scared I can close my eyes and do a slow breath and let my body "melt". This takes a long time to do. Not a couple months.
Anxiety. It sucks but it is a mild symptom. Remind yourself that this is just that, nothing more. Tea and guided imagery helped me to learn to "relax" out of it.
I am unsure beyond a bath of scents and tea to help as it will take the edge off. I know all the paths to this but I am still working on it. I still have this as a major issue that and I think will ease with more time like the rest.
Not sure about this one. Tea will help with honey though! Could you be wearing out so hard you do the snoring thing? I would talk to the doc about that one if it is chronic.
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This one may take time too. Spearmint tea and ginger root capsules can help worlds though.
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- feel surreal, disconnected from the world, people
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PTSD certainly does that as can anxiety attacks. This one I never could get a grip on. I had to heal in all the other ways before this started to work out. Still happens but not so often now. Wish I could offer an idea.
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- desire for rescue (?) or help but there's no way I can reach anyone
- loneliness, isolation, detachment, not in the same world as everyone else.
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You hope that there is some form of quick fix. We all do/did. There isn't but you find such a new empowerment it is unreal. I am nowhere who or what I was before this kicked in hard, but I love this new me and I worked so hard to get here, harder than the rest of the things in my life that I thought was me and thought I worked so hard to do.
I see I am far from alone. They may not be my neighbor but so many are just like me. I am many things, but alone and isolated I am not anymore. You will see that.
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- helpless, wanting the pain & the above to stop, but completely unable to do anything even logging on here is a chore, getting out of bed a pain, feel unable to move or connect to my physical body. Powerless.
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You went back to your original thought, depression. What you feel is normal and it is OK. It will be normal for you a while, just keep letting yourself know you will eventually swing up and quite happily the more you do therapy and open up. It will be a rough ride but we all go though it. It will be for the better if you just push through. Don't give up or settle for less symptoms. It is a long hard road but it can be traveled.