I watched a very interesting video on trauma and how it affects us. We generally bury these traumas in our sub-conscious, because thinking about them 24/7 conciously would make life extremely difficult. If you are constnatly thinking about traumtic experiences you are just re-traumatizing yourself and you never heal.
I’m in the middle of my 3rd med switch. It’s been a rollercoaster from hell as I expected it would. I’m not better yet, I’m still dealing with a lot of pyschotic symptoms. The trauma from all my past psychotic periods is all flooding back. I feel like I can’t heal.
I get stuck on these traumas and then I can’t function. It’s definitely related, schizophrenia is a tough illness. I guess my only take away from all this is I’m working REALLY hard to let go of the trauma and fear and try and find happiness in my circumstances always.
How do you deal with the trauma of schizophrenia? Can you find peace and hapiness in the midst of a psychotic episode or a whirlwind of a reality warp?
I think it is important to think about past traumas only long enough to see if there is anything to be learned from them. suchas, how to avoid a bad situation in the future.
Once that learning and examining of the events of the trauma is done, those memories should be left were they belong, in the past.
It is my personal opinion that we then need to start to work on making what will be good memories. We do not want to pause our lives because something bad happens and then the whole rest of our life is squandered by letting those memories rule us.
There has to be a balance. There should be at least as many good memories and moments as bad ones. I think ruminating over tragedy steals the oppurtunity to have a happier life.
I think one thing that is important for me is that while I’m pyschotic or dealing with symptoms I need to give myself a break and try to enjoy the little things. I’m not ready to be around a bunch of people, I’m not quiet ready for that. It’s hard because I feel like the illness takes that away from me, and the fear of trauma. But at the same time, I get so tired of fighting it that I have come to the conclusion that it must be OK to take it easy on myself. I need to heal.
I need to leave past traumas in the past. That’s very clear. Great response thank you
This site is one of the ways one can take those baby steps back to good place in life. If one can not be around a lot of people in person, then this is a good start. This type of forum encourages and helps us retain our people skills. I think some therapies and therpist might have good potential. However, sometimes we already have an idea of what we need to do. We just need the right enviroment to initiate or practice. A bit of encouragement never hurts either.