My Latest Session – As the new year gets underway, I am feeling grateful to be in a state of mental illness remission.
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As the new year gets underway, I am feeling grateful to be in a state of mental illness remission. currently, I am enjoying clearer skies and thus a happier disposition. For me, the happier, the more mentally strong I am. This disposition helped in my latest session.
And it couldn’t have come at a better time for me. Yesterday, I landed in my therapist’s office for the first session of the year. I felt like I was ready to tackle some of my most haunting experiences; those that gave birth to my PTSD and exacerbate my depression.
I still have a way to travel before my road to mental wellness reaches smoother, less difficult terrain. We explore this in my latest session.
From the moment I landed in the chair, it was go time! I was ready. to tackle whatever came my way and as a result, it was a great session.
It’s in these moments when I am enjoying a reprieve from the dark and depressive states that I stand firm, my determination to beat my demons’ shines. I can beat this! I am the one in control and I will win the day!
Common therapeutic tools for PTSD
Although I walked in like a warrior, I’d be lying if I told you that the forty-five-minute dive into my mental pain was a walk in the park. In fact, the opposite is true because the therapist started to dig at my most severe triggers; those incidents that had changed my life forever.
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Taking me back on a trip through my mind, I was triggered. I became symptomatic, and my fight or flight mode was telling me to run for my life. Although I dislike feeling numb and care less for the flashbacks, I must stand tall. Not only do I need to stand tall, I also must conquer this pain. If I am to have any sort of life, the uncomforted zone is where I must venture. Whether I like it or not, it’s irrelevant.
Up until this last session, we have been working with mindfulness in an attempt to steer me back into the present. Doing so will minimize living in the past. For months, we have been working on my triggers and it has helped. Now, when I am faced with high stimulus environments, I can navigate my way through the discomforts and manage the side effect.
“We have all made it through our toughest days, things have gotten better”.
Unfortunately, being exposed to the larger world for too long of a period can take me out. Sometimes for days on end. So, clearly, I still have a way to travel before my road to mental wellness reaches smoother, less difficult terrain.
So, are you feeling like therapy is doing more harm than good? Fear not, understand that there will be days where it’s dreadful. However, your sessions will get better as you work through your pain.
I think you’ll discover that when you work on you, you’ll be all the better for it.
My therapist recommended we try EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing; a type of therapy that a technique used by a trained psychologist to minimize the psychological stress of my traumas. Click the highlighted link to learn more on EMDR
Well then, what advice can I offer? Well, I think we have gotten so used to running away from, anything uncomfortable, as a result, our go-to remedy is avoidance. I know it’s tough, but if you step out of your comfort zone and brave your mental pain, you can then start to heal.
