Walking helps regulate my breathing and helps me to relax. Being in nature also helps. I also listen to binaural beats and do stretches. I found a new virtual therapist and since my GAD is genetic I am on benzos which help remarkably when I have panic attacks. Breathe and definitely limit your news intake.
I would recommend turning off the TV and avoiding all news. I did and both acts dialed down my anxiety. Don't you want to be informed, ask various people. I tell them I get all the bad news a person needs by osmosis, from others, and now these horrible news clips on aol. You might notice this too with the TV off.
Listening to music without earbuds is also the way to go....you can crank up the sound and dance around the living room with joy and abandon....which is good for body and soul.
My advice won't change you and may also annoy you, just as you couldn't make T supporters see the truth about a horrible, disturbed man who has no business leading a country. Yet, these changes helped me greatly. And I've started reading again. It's a fabulous pastime.
I recently received my C-PTSD diagnosis. And if that isn't hard enough everytime I open Instagram I feel as if I'm being traumatised all over again. I find disconnecting from the media and reconnecting to people is the way to some kind of peace. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I’ve been limiting my news input also bc I have had the same trajectory as you over the last decade. Yesterday I was tapped on though to see the NO Kings protestors and I saw the tragic news about the MN political murders. Then last night I dreamt the perpetrator broke into my home to kill my family. I couldn’t get back to sleep until dawn. CPTSD is a b!tch!
Thank you for naming the impact that the man in the White House has had on those of us with PTSD or C-PTSD. Especially those of us who were traumatized by someone whose malignant narcissism, cruelty and sociopathic lack of empathy or conscience were eerily similar to this man's. (In my case, the person who ravaged my world as a child even sorta LOOKED like the man who has soured our daily news for the past decade.)
Your suggestions for self-care are good ones. There's also a quotation I like to keep in mind, one that might be heartening to us all as we resist the assault on our democracy
"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall... Always." ---Mohandas Gandhi
It sounds like you're finding good ways to curb stress. Have you considered playing music on your stereo at times when you don't have the TV on? I like to listen to music sometimes when I want to read, but I would find it too distracting for the TV being left on while reading.
Walking helps regulate my breathing and helps me to relax. Being in nature also helps. I also listen to binaural beats and do stretches. I found a new virtual therapist and since my GAD is genetic I am on benzos which help remarkably when I have panic attacks. Breathe and definitely limit your news intake.
I would recommend turning off the TV and avoiding all news. I did and both acts dialed down my anxiety. Don't you want to be informed, ask various people. I tell them I get all the bad news a person needs by osmosis, from others, and now these horrible news clips on aol. You might notice this too with the TV off.
Listening to music without earbuds is also the way to go....you can crank up the sound and dance around the living room with joy and abandon....which is good for body and soul.
My advice won't change you and may also annoy you, just as you couldn't make T supporters see the truth about a horrible, disturbed man who has no business leading a country. Yet, these changes helped me greatly. And I've started reading again. It's a fabulous pastime.
I recently received my C-PTSD diagnosis. And if that isn't hard enough everytime I open Instagram I feel as if I'm being traumatised all over again. I find disconnecting from the media and reconnecting to people is the way to some kind of peace. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I’ve been limiting my news input also bc I have had the same trajectory as you over the last decade. Yesterday I was tapped on though to see the NO Kings protestors and I saw the tragic news about the MN political murders. Then last night I dreamt the perpetrator broke into my home to kill my family. I couldn’t get back to sleep until dawn. CPTSD is a b!tch!
Thank you for naming the impact that the man in the White House has had on those of us with PTSD or C-PTSD. Especially those of us who were traumatized by someone whose malignant narcissism, cruelty and sociopathic lack of empathy or conscience were eerily similar to this man's. (In my case, the person who ravaged my world as a child even sorta LOOKED like the man who has soured our daily news for the past decade.)
Your suggestions for self-care are good ones. There's also a quotation I like to keep in mind, one that might be heartening to us all as we resist the assault on our democracy
"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall... Always." ---Mohandas Gandhi
It sounds like you're finding good ways to curb stress. Have you considered playing music on your stereo at times when you don't have the TV on? I like to listen to music sometimes when I want to read, but I would find it too distracting for the TV being left on while reading.