Emotional Numbing as a Trauma Response

[sheering]

I felt numb for almost 60 years! Until I finally healed & let go! I thought I was just depressed! 🤷‍♀️

[iconsnart]

Yoga nidra has helped me very much, i feel the same but also Alex Howard has helped me understand

[edition_]

Does anyone know why someone can't function properly. I mean, it's hard to just prepare a meal without feeling like being in the middle of a tornado, and there're also b0mbs falling from the sky, and there's an open volcano underneath your feet. Racing thoughts, difficulty breathing, perspiration, tension headaches. It's overwhelming to do *anything*.
Is it a nervous system disorder or an anxiety disorder, or whatever disorder is this?!
Psychotherapy, CBT, Trauma Focused CBT, EMDR, Antidepressants, Somatic Practices, meditation, tens if not hundreds of supplements; nothing has ever helped even slightly.
Yes, I also feel numb, and "I don't feel myself", like I don't actually exist.

[Brad-whyw]

What do you do if your someone who's trauma made it impossible to stop yourself from reaching out to people and oversharing cause of being alone with your numbness so much as a child and got reasonably scared of yourself for how you treated yourself as a child while numb and alone (I attempted suicide and attacked myself by cutting and savored in the numbness, also made myself a pushover to other kids and was manipulated by them into doing mean things to yourself and others)

[surfrby]

Everything you talk about is on the mark

[Z.H.O]

You simply make a tiny choice that your going to be good and attack your fears and then after the many years of figuring that out and terrible coping strategies you have no choice to do during this process and use them only for what you told yourself you would do and use this time not to distract but to put all of your intelligence your stuck with to good use and pluck away at your horrific life and face reality more and more until something will let you know what you need to do and you have to be genuine/ honest in your dominance of your source of hell or the main one at least and give yourself some well deserved praise. Then you can have the room after a while to grow these useful feelings witch if you don’t want still then just accept them as the assets they are. Then you should realize your able to see the indescribable and you will be prepared though you’ll always be strange and you get to experience things that should blow you away to have a panicking existential crisis but you’ll have the courage and endurance to see the extraordinary.