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Has anybody tried the TRE therapy?

Aka

Trauma Release Exercises/Experiencing.

Check it out on youtube, it's free and easy to learn. I find that it nicely builds on the work of 'Peter Levine - Healing Trauma' through the uninterrupted and unjudged feeling/experiencing of trauma related somatic symptoms in the form of tremors etc.

I will incorporate this into my routine in the coming days.

a life of strained survival

Such a perfect description of what life is like on a daily basis for so many of us sadly. Hopefully none of us will have to live like this for the whole of our lives as CPTSD becomes more widely recognized and better treatments are developed. Are you working with a therapist B2B?

Hi Kizzie,

I am currently undergoing 12 EMDR sessions with 4 remaining.

So I am now on the lookout for a well experienced CPTSD specialist to continue my treatment long term. I would like them to have a collection of therapeutic tools so that they can use different approaches to help me. I have a feeling one size doesn't fit all with these sort of things.

Has anybody tried the TRE therapy?

I was pleasantly surprised to see that members had responded. Thank you

I have found that youtube has some really good resources, especially in the way of audiobooks from seminal writers about CPTSD and also some informational lectures that help prime a sufferer on how modern frameworks for DTD and CPTSD show they are now considered very treatable conditions. Which is amazing for all sufferers.

This is in contrast to 1992 when my mother was diagnosed with severe CPTSD but back then it was understood as being untreatable. So she raised my brother and I, with her symptoms always at full effect.

I didn't realise these experiences were unconventional until I entered into the real world as an independent young adult. My gosh, what a rude awakening that was. Up until then I thought my childhood experiences were just normal. Now I realise that I had lived the first 21 years marinating in denial and dillusion whilst being shaped in the image of trauma.

I find it sad that it becomes a relay race, where parent passes to child a baton of sheer melancholy. Leaving child utterly unprepared for anything but a life of strained survival.

I'm 35 years old and since the age of 17 have spent 18 years in acute CPTSD symptoms. 

After misdiagnosis with MDD & GAD, I never really made any progress but since a kind therapist told me that I likely was suffering from CPTSD I have been able to make progress as now I have a starting point. One which I can build from.

"Know thyself and all else shall be revealed"

I hope to contribute and to learn.

Kind Regards

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