u/Ok_Potential_968

Hi everyone. Beginner ish question of something that happened that I’m not sure how to make sense of. Over the weekend I was unwell and went to the ER. It was something more mild but I did need help. However I catastrophise a lot and it’s linked to my trauma, nobody helping me and me needing to do everything I can to survive as I feel like nobody is there for me.
I’ve been doing SE and IFS for a few months with a therapist and it’s going great, I’m intentionally avoiding TRE after overdoing it last year.

A couple days after this, I wake up in the night (rare) to my left shoulder tremoring, I think. Although, if I think it was tremoring then it probably was. I didn’t get back to sleep and felt okay that day, didn’t think too much of it.

That night, I do some self regulation exercises I learnt from SE, nothing crazy. I sleep fine too but I wake up feeling like I’ve been hit by a bus: severe fatigue that left me bedbound all day. I feel better today which is the next day. The only way I can make sense of it in my mind is my body discharging the stress from the weekend a couple of days later out of my system, whilst I’m sleeping. I have also felt burning/heat in my forearms which I had when I overdid TRE before.
I haven’t experienced any spontaneous releases outside of SE, let alone tremoring. If I was going to have a release I would not think it would be tremoring as I haven’t done that in a year.
Why did this sleep tremoring cause me such negative side effects if it’s meant to be a ‘good’ release? I didn’t incite it obviously. I don’t expect to feel nothing with SE and TRE but the fatigue was really bad.

But again, it couldn’t exclusively be from the tremoring. My body was in a heightened sympathetic state which it needs rest to recover from. I just can’t really wrap my head around it and it making me feel so bad. Although now I sound like I’m contradicting myself haha.

Hi everyone, beginner question here. I have overdone TRE in the past as a beginner and want to try it again. I have watched videos online of sessions and have read the wiki and I think it’s best for me to start very slowly, like 15 seconds ish.
I’m also autistic and find it hard to process info so I have to ask lots of questions for my brain to fully understand it haha.

So, my question is, when people talk about their tremoring, are they meaning the length of the session as a whole? Or just the amount of time the washing machine rumbling style tremors occur? Because wouldn’t this be a big difference?

As from my experience, I would get the rigorous tremors without doing warmups, but they would shut themselves off after like, 2 or 3 seconds. I just don’t know how to make sense of this, what it means and if I should keep going once they shut off, as I did before and that’s what caused overdoing.

Maybe it’s one of those things where I’ll learn from actually doing it, but I just want to ask before I try as I can’t risk overdoing it again! Thanks

I have just started somatic experiencing therapy with IFS and have had a few weeks worth of sessions. My system is too activated to start TRE right now but I do want to. I’ve been a long term reader of this sub on another account and have read the wiki.

I wanted to make a post and see if anyone else has had the same symptoms/patterns of nervous system states I have. I have a constant chronic tightness in my chest at night and I am unable to cry/access what it is. This anxiety causes insomnia, I’m always tired and wired, my system keeps me awake. I’m seriously sick of it.

I know that TRE and hopefully what I’m doing with somatic experiencing and IFS are effective however I just feel a bit lost and hopeless (probably the trauma talking) about my symptoms. Like is my chest going to have to tremor to solve the tightness?? Or is it more emotional??
My system really is on high alert all the time, I have to take sleep aids. I can’t just relax or fall asleep and it’s so frustrating. I just wanted to hear from other people that this is resolvable and able to be healed, as for years I have tried modalities such as EMDR too to no great success. I really try not to over activate my system but I don’t know how to down regulate it into rest and digest.