u/Dreamy_glow

Hi,

I need to go to the post office and drop off 4 parcels. It’s simply 5 minutes away. How do I do it?

After the traumas 3 years ago I went to the post office like I would normally go out and had a strange headache while I was in the queue. It was super strange. There was this whole other strange feeling happening too distracting me from being present, that time I had no idea trauma could cause anything like this, that walk back home was so hard. It felt like I was carrying weight and dragging myself.

When I got home I couldn’t understand what happened and why it was so hard to just to the post office and back. I cried and thought I was just unwell I rested and hoped I’ll be better. I was fine a day or two later, so I thought. This progressively got worse each time I went out. Then one day it became full blown dissociation derealisation. Then I completely stopped going out.

Trauma did this to me, it was all family trauma so I say my family did this to be. I can’t not get angry at them each time I struggled in last 3 years with trauma responses.

Back to the reason I am posting this. How do I go to the post office, be patient in the queue, send 4 parcels and come back? Please respond with every and any tips and encouragement I really need it.

Looking forward to getting some advice. Thank you. ☺️

Hi,

Anything I do or try I get super fatigued. Even when I don’t try. It comes with the all the other symptoms and after doing something. My body is in constant shutdown but this is always present too.

Do you have this? Why does it happen and how to get my energy back?

Hi,

Anytime I do exposure I get anxiety, panic in the background, heightened senses and hyper vigilance. That results in feeling terrible after, I get washed out.

I become very fatigued and further in shutdown mode which stops me trying consecutively. I need to be going out regularly with a day or two break.

Do you get crippling fatigue? What’s the best way to do consist exposure for me with the after effects?