理解您的应划疫的情感的重要性

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如果你有PTSD,你可能会遇到非常强烈的焦虑感,悲伤,愤怒,guilt或者羞耻,只有几个。当你在快速连续时感受到几个可行的关注点情绪时,在任何特定时刻都会很难知道你的感受。

如果经常发生你不知道自己的感受,你可能会出现问题,如:

  • 感到控制和焦虑下一个情绪正在发生
  • Feeling unable to manage your emotions and stay in control
  • Choosing an unhealthy way to cope with your PTSD emotions, such as避免or自我药物用非法毒品或酒精

在极度令人沮丧的情况下,有些人可能会使用解离(“消隐”或觉得你的情绪与你断开连接)到他们自己远离allaspects of an emotion.

Why It's Better to Know Exactly What You're Feeling

当你知道确切的时候,你有正确的信息,以弄清楚如何让自己感觉更好。您可以选择应对最有可能有效的应激障碍情绪的方式。

但是,你可能想知道,不是治疗方法effective? Yes, but not every healthy coping strategy works the same for every emotional experience. For example,表达写作而且可能比愤怒更适合悲伤,而拿一个“超时”可能更有效地升级敌意的感情。

你怎么能确切地识别你的感受?首先,您需要知道不同的形式情绪可以采取。

情感的一部分

Every emotion has three parts:

  1. 你的想法: Ideas or images that pop into your head when you're feeling an emotion
  2. 你的身体感觉:当您感到一种情感时,身体的物理变化(例如,心率增加,或恶心)
  3. 你的行为: The action you feel like taking when you're feeling an emotion

If you're like most people, with or without PTSD, you probably haven't been aware of the three parts of your emotions or the different ways those parts may affect how you feel.

例如,有时是一个部分,如不舒服的想法,可以“来”这么强烈地,很难与其他人联系。如果您要遇到这一点,您可能只是试图推开或抑制您的不舒服的想法,当然,这将使您能够识别它们并选择适当的应对策略,这将使您感觉更好。

Identifying Your Emotions According to Their Parts

Listed below are some forms that the three parts of commonly-felt PTSD emotions may take.

Fear

  • 思想:“我处于危险之中。可怕的事情会发生。”
  • 身体感觉:赛车听到t, "tunnel vision," shortness of breath
  • Behaviors:逃避局面,“冻结”,哭了

悲伤

  • 思想:"My situation is never going to change. I'm all alone in this."
  • 身体感觉:Low energy, slower heart rate, nausea
  • Behaviors:隔离自己,哭泣

愤怒

  • 思想:“生活是不公平的。每个人都要得到我。”
  • 身体感觉:赛车心脏,肌肉张力,颌骨咬紧
  • Behaviors:大喊大叫,采摘战斗,砰的门

下次你体验情感,尝试识别它的所有三个部分。(如果您不能,即使是一个或两个人也会有所帮助。)然后将它们与此列表相匹配,看看您是否感受到这三个共同的应激障碍情绪中的一个。如果您没有匹配,请使用您所识别的三个部分进一步调查您的感受。

Choosing a Coping Strategy to Match Your Emotion

Once you've identified at least one or two thoughts, physical sensations, and behaviors connected to an emotion you're feeling, you can start thinking about the type of coping strategy that might be best for managing it.

For example, if you're experiencing an emotion that causes increased heart rate and muscle tension, you may want to try a coping strategy to bring those physical sensations down, such asprogressive muscle relaxationordeep breathing

Now that you've learned how to identify your PTSD emotions, hopefully you're feeling better about managing them. Fortunately you can choose from a number ofhealthy coping strategies

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