How do you process your emotions?
Hi! I am AuDHD and also have CPTSD. For context: have been in trauma therapy for years. This year I had a barrage of awful live events within the space of about 2 months. Complete fluke. It has meant every external scaffolding has disappeared. Partner, working, my only friends, my beloved pet. My nervous system fell apart and I’ve spent most of the last 4 months in bed and my panic, anxiety and dissociation are on another level and nothing is helping. I feel like therapy has become unhelpful. It’s just “go inside yourself and you’ll figure out what you or your younger parts need”. But nothing comes up. I feel like I need practical, tangible advice.
If I feel my feelings they overtake me and I have a meltdown. Even if I can sit with it and they past, they just go back inside me and rot. I joke and say “I’ve literally never processed anything ever.” But it’s true. Like HOW do people process emotions? Write it down? Walk and think about it? Tell someone else? The grief of loosing my rabbit is too much to even bare thinking about. How do I help myself process?