Trauma Therapy Makes You Feel Worse Before You Feel Better | HealthyPlace

Therapy can make PTSD worse before it gets better. It can be tempting to quit. Learn why you should stay in therapy even when it's difficult at HealthyPlace.

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[gw]

Thank you, for this video. I started therapy two weeks ago, and it feels like all of a sudden everything has gotten a million times worse. It has been scary because I haven't really even covered that much in therapy yet. But I have spent a long time repressing things, so I guess any type of conversation about it will be difficult. Sending love to everyone on this journey.

[billieporter]

Thanks I did a deep dive trauma therapy session yesterday and I have been in so much turmoil and pain since then. I think maybe I’ll ask to go slower.

[picklespip]

I have just started a new set of therapy for childhood trauma. The last few months my PTSD symtoms are coming back, panic attacks, intrusive thoughts feeling bad about myself, social anxiety etc. It's really reassuring that I am not the only one going through this. Thank you so much for the upload 😊 I am going back to a Psychiatrist in the next few weeks, as I believe my symptoms are more to do with CPTSD as my trauma was all my childhood.

[daviddanielsson]

Well, I needed to hear this. In therapy for C-PTSD and it's gotten so much worse since starting therapy a couple of months ago.

[allinclusive]

That is so helpful! I am so curious, that facing my trauma makes me feel the worst ever. It's so overwhelming... It will be better one day... 🌸

[freerangemaker]

I have recently gone back to therapy, because my partner was enjoying his, and he suggested I make use of the free resources. I was on a two year wait list. I went from a place of feeling balanced and engaged and grateful for my life to feeling way, way, way worse. The individual I am working with doesnʻt have any training for treating trauma per se. I had already been in therapy on and off for 30 years, and the last trauma specialist I was working with said, you are done. I think, with some life stories, once things have been witnessed, and processed, and the dissociative spectrum has resolved, in my experience, it makes no sense to do something that makes you feel crappy all over again. There is a basic premise of "do no harm", and the retelling of some stories, I am finding is re-traumatizing, and it makes no sense to put my nervous system through this. To have a process result in throwing the nervous system out of whack. So, for me, where I am in my journey, I am choosing to not go back into therapy. Iʻve had too many years of feeling shitty from therapy, decades. It is time to embrace the fact that I can live an integrated fulfilled life, in balance, and engage with things I love to do, without therapy. I think there is another way. Do no harm. No more harming the body working with talk therapy. So, what makes sense, is continuing to cultivate a lifestyle of well-being with all activity circling up around this, activities that promote wellness. Therapy, at this time, doesnʻt. Just a different perspective, from working the journey since 1991.

[orianasantos]

im in trauma therapy now its so fucking hard that i had days i wanted to be dead.. its literally that hard. But thanks for this video its a bit of a relief.. <3

[gojiberry]

I was just diagnosed with PTSD 4 weeks ago, I guess CPTSD as the abuse ran continuously from early childhood to mid-twenties. My psychiatrist advised me that it's like exposing a cut on your body, like ripping off a scab. It's going to be painful at first, but to have faith and to keep going.

[austinkim]

Mine can get worse for three months straight until it gets better, then the difference is night and day once I break through that wall of trauma. Until I have to hit another trauma wall. It's insanely discouraging but think of it like the stock market. Any given 1 week time window it may look like it's just crashing. But for most 1 year time windows the overall trend is up.
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[ootenba]

Wish I had seen this video when going through it! ❤ I had 2/3 years of very hard symptoms (unfortunately flooding of locked memories in between). I luckily feel a lot better now! So for anyone struggling: I had many days I thought I couldnt do it anymore & didnt know why therapy wasnt working. It will/can get better.

[Carvajalh]

Yea definitely feel like doing trauma counselling made things very confusing for me whilst trying to manage my relationship. I remembered starting trauma therapy cos I didn’t know if I was being abused or I was having CPTSD triggers in my intimate relationships. And now although I know a lot about my past patterns etc, but I struggle with feeling numb and being shut down, feeling disconnected and not sure how to express how I feel.

[mikaeladevries]

Recently started actually talking about it, my trust takes awhile to gain. I also have nonepileptic seizures from my ptsd/conversion disorder. My pnes have gotten way worse

[Luna-ftyh]

I'm not scared of my memory I'm wanting to die or kill them. So that's the pain. I'm in contact with them briefly and they kill me. But I'm not stopping. I need to make it through. I want to live. Thanks for sharing

[petercastrocollins]

Any updates? It's been 8 months. Have things gotten better?

[Vivacious_Chaos]

Been getting worse and in a state of minimal functioning and struggle with day to day activities. Been disabled for years from it but now I am unable to even smaller things like cleaning or grocery shopping.

[stephaniekaylive]

I’m really afraid to have this done. I don’t know what to do but I’m scared I won’t be able to handle the truth and trauma that I have gone through for over 20 years. I am afraid to relive everything all over. I know I’m really getting worse, I feel weaker every day and don’t look well but I won’t ever let anyone really know. I just would rather not remember than go through this. Will this work for me? Or would it make me worse?

[ArtisticMysticSoul]

After a DECADE of this crap, I've finally decided that "trauma therapy" is bullshit. Why on earth should I keep exposing myself to more pain? It never ends! A decade of my life, gone. Trauma therapy does not work. Please avoid it and try to enjoy your life. There is no reason to keep stirring the pot. You know what that does? It just keeps you upset.