Yes, you need to learn that whatever is terrorizing you isn't that big of a monster. It's like exposure therapy. There is treatment for panic attacks called paradoxical exposure (don't quote me on this; I don't remember). Basically, you simply try to trigger your own panic attacks. So whatever association your brain made that has created triggers doesn't work anymore. You can do that by breathing through your mouth very fast. I really did. I just used VOOAU when I felt it was coming to calm down and tried to go about my day as relaxed as I could about what worried me at a time. VOOAU estimulates vagus nerve, that calms you down.
I don't know if you are dealing with panic attacks, but there is a lot of good stuff on YouTube about psychology for free. You just have to deal. I dealt with my worst crisis in life by simply trying to figure out what was going on by myself. Theraphists are full of shit for the most part. The science is real and is out there, but they don't really care about healing you. WE NEED TO READ ABOUT THIS STUFF OURSELVES.
I really recommend you write all this down into a diary. All bad things that happened. Negative thoughts that usually pop up. When ptsd flashbacks happen and so on... A diary really helps to figure out patterns and triggers.
I appreciate it a lot
Not gonna lie dude I think if you and Logiko talked more you'd get along very well
I'm not dealing with panic attacks though, it's just that basically
I was living in a home where I was abused before, and when that happens, your subconcious maps that place as dangerous, and your nervous system gets signals to go into freeze
But I was doing a lot intellectually, physically, and social wise, and that was giving my nervous system a lot of signals that it was safe
So it was basically like
I'm living in that house = many danger signals
I'm doing amazing = many safety signals
But I stopped doing that stuff, so the safety signals stopped, my body got exclusively danger signals, and it went into freeze
I moved out now, and all I have to do is just do my things, and it thaws the freeze and gets me back to a regulated nervous system ( thaw is the literal term used for it )
I'm not mentally traumatised, just my body