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I came so hard I spontaneously started sobbing ??? felt like I had a stroke - wild

anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

  • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Have you tried grounding techniques? When you start dissociating, take a slow deep breath, and count 5 things you can see, 4 things you can feel, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, and 1 thing you can taste. Also your partner sounds like a keeper, you should definitely hold onto her!

    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      6·
      9 months ago

      we’re celebrating our 13 year anniversary this month, I really don’t know how I got this lucky 😭

      and thanks for the instructions, I’ll try that out and see if it helps - I’ve used grounding techniques in the past but I’ve also struggled to even recognize when I’m dissociating, so it can be hard to tell when something is helping vs not - but I’ll try it anyway.

      One of the grounding exercises I learned about from Peter A. Levine’s Waking the Tiger was something like touching various body parts and using a showerhead to generate sensation and repeating things like “this is my arm” and so on. I’m not sure I ever found that particularly useful, though.