Losing Myself
Things have been pretty hectic for me lately. I've had a decent amount of trauma in my life, and I was diagnosed with C-PTSD at a fairly young age. The most recent incident was on the 6th of October, last month. I got into a huge fight with the man I have been exclusively seeing for the past few years. He's told me time and again that I'm the only girls he's been talking to, but I had a bad feeling about it. I ended up going through his phone at 3 am and found multiple conversations with different girls, some of which were only a few days old. (Not just flirting, but sending nude pictures back and forth and stuff like that.) I freaked out and left his house, but it was raining. I lost control of my car and ended up totaling it. I'm thankfully not too physically injured, just some broken ribs, stitches, and a messed up shoulder. But since the accident I haven't felt much of anything, good or bad. I've been unintentionally isolating myself, I have little interest in anything, I don't really want to be around people, ect. My family and coworkers have been constantly asking me if I'm okay, but I don't know. I honestly don't feel much of anything, and I honestly don't really care about anything anymore. I've never felt this emotionally numb or hollow before. I'm not sure if it's a trauma response, or something else. I guess I just wanted to vent a bit since I don't really have friends. I also wanted to see if anyone else has gone through feeling like this, and how they started feeling more like themselves again.
@AlduinTheDovah
I am so sorry that you had to find out through his phone that he was not totally committed to your all relationship. Yes, this is a trauma response. It causes us to freeze, and our emotions can get numbed out. Causing us to withdraw. I resonate with how you are feeling. A good thing is that you recognize what you are feeling: the numbness. Sit down and grab some paper, and let's begin to ask ourselves some open questions about how that situation made us feel and what your thoughts were until we run out of answers. Get inside your head and take a good look at where and what you felt. This might help ahead some light on why you are numb. Also, do you have a therapist that you can talk to? I am not sure this will work for you, but it helped me begin to process. Once you can identify the issues, give yourself a reward. Knowledge is power❤️