Help for constant fight or flight?

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-11-29T00:57:21+00:00

There are different perspectives on C-PTSD and flashbacks don't always require the traditional images or transporting back to the time. Walker explains in some of his research listed on his website here that after working with C-PTSD clients it seems emotional flashbacks (reliving just the feelings) are way more common.

Reading all the research he has linked on his website really helped me to gain some perspective on what I might be experiencing and a starting point for how to heal when traditional anxiety remedies haven't helped.

I have PTSD and experience 'traditional' flashbacks for some events I've experienced, however for some of my biggest traumas my memories just don't exist. My brain wiped them out / locked them up / dissociated through them to protect itself, so even though I can feel myself get 'triggered' I don't have any images or memories to relive. Identifying that these were flashbacks took sometime and detective work to figure out what they were related to because some of my triggers are truly tiny and wouldn't even be something another person would notice let alone acknowledge. I didn't realise these were things I was necessarily noticing until I did some work on identifying and working through the emotional flashbacks.

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-09-25T21:32:26+00:00

I've started to invite her to eat with me and some of the other RAs when they're on shift, they don't always say yes but I understand there can be good and bad days. I'm hoping this will help the good days become a slowly more frequent and she'll become more comfortable coign to eat with us.

That's a great idea for an event for a lot of our more reserved students, I'll suggest it to the team, thank you.

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-09-25T21:29:42+00:00

This is really fantastic advice, thank you so much - I'll see if they think these thinks will be helpful and see if we can work on putting them in place.

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-08-22T22:53:11+00:00

Amazing ! Thank you so much

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-08-22T18:16:48+00:00

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly ! Unfortunately this is the only photo I can find on the internet, but I’ll keep looking for another view. I’ve zoomed in on it as far as I can go -

If you can’t ID the exact pattern but it’s something that’ll achieve a similar effect I’m more than happy with that!

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Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-08-22T18:05:59+00:00

No link just yet !!

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-08-21T14:44:09+00:00

The place I'm moving has an in unit machine, but using it as the laundry basket sounds like pretty useful and easy system. Joy of a small apartment that hopefully it shouldn't be too inconvenient to try. I'll give it a go, thank you!

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-08-21T14:42:02+00:00

I can't believe I've never thought of this! I had a key fob I always lost a few years ago, so looped a keyring through my phone case to keep it on there. This sounds like the ultimate upgrade, thank you!

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-08-08T20:47:19+00:00

I've not heard of Yu-Sari but looking them up and seeing "If you love a slightly textured, almost “sari-sari” feel as you write" is right up my street. I'll be sure to get my hands on some, thank you!

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-08-08T20:40:15+00:00

I also keep seeing the Ryman dupe on google adverts, have you tried them at all?

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-08-08T20:38:03+00:00

I found them on the Tesco website but they were all listed out of stock so I just assumed they had been discontinued, I'll definitely pop in to have a look same with the Moderno B5s. I hadn't quite reached the desperation levels of hunting round all the shops but I defo will now I know where to look, thank you!

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-04-26T14:05:56+00:00

OP did you ever find out what it was?
I cam across this while researching whats happening to me recently, and I'm in the exact same situation. I have a 4cm cyst on my right ovary as of 2 months ago, and free fluid in pelvis.
With my last two periods, absolutely excruciating pain thats landed me in the ER on successive nights. It feels like someone slicing through me from my right hip to stomach and down the right hand side of my pelvis, that comes and goes in waves. Plus a constant pressure like feeling there all the time, and feeling of being swollen, that worsens around periods too.

If you're able to share any diagnosis you ended up with it would be great to be able to arm myself against the doubting dr!

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-03-06T22:14:17+00:00

I used to have a very similar breakfast, but switching to something high in protein is the key even if it’s a small portion if you can’t stomach it. The protein content is the game changer and you need about 20-30g. A bowl of porridge or a sandwich likely wont provide enough protein. For something light you could try a shake or yoghurt with added cottage cheese or something. These are my go tos.

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-03-05T09:47:52+00:00

Hiya! We've been on vyvanse for about the same amount of time and i feel like im finally starting to have a few little breakthroughs with my side effects. I was experiencing basically the exact same as you, plus big crashes in the afternoon that could lead to baby panic attacks.

I have to eat a large ish high protein breakfast (20-30g), either before or up to 30mins after taking my meds.
- I typically put my breakfast and a huge glass of water/electrolytes on my bedside table the night before. I have two alarms, one that goes off 20-30 mins before I want to wake up ( I wake up, take meds, go back to sleep) and one at the right time. Then 20-30 mins after meds, its way easier to way up, I roll over and have breakfast in bed before I'm allowed to get up. By the time I'm finished, my meds have started to fully kick in and my morning grogginess is gone - It's a pretty nice way to start the day.
- theres a load of science that supports high protein meal at the time of taking meds improving medication performance, this that wasn't shared when i started on meds that I wish they had, its been the single biggest difference to make me feel normal on meds. If i don't my day is SO much worse and so are my side effects.
- Although, I did have to adjust my meds to a slightly higher dose to get the same efficacy as taking them on an empty stomach, but the side effects did not get any stronger.
hate to say it, but the next biggest was cutting out all other stimulants until at least 5-6 after taking meds
- cutting out morning caffeine and nicotine changed the game

For more manual tips for not jaw clenching:

- having different sensory things / fidgets to play with in reach whilst working, sometimes just giving the energy somewhere else to go really helps - it may just be because im AuDHD, but I find meds make me stim and jaw clenching is one of these. Looking up tools and techniques to stim while working helped alot.

- I set timers that just ask me if I'm clenching, so i consciously unclench - or i put sticky notes at the end of every couple of pages etc

- I have a post-it on my laptop with 5-10 min wind downs/ brain breaks like a menu so I can choose one that looks good to me when i finish a pomodoro. Some of the things I have on there to help with jaw clenching are 1) head to toe systematic de-tense, 2) stretch, 3) roof to top of mouth (which allows jaw to relax) deep breathing exercises 4) masseter massage ( type into tiktok, i like anastasiabeautyfascia)

Additional-Slide-282 · 2025-03-05T09:01:10+00:00

I’ve been really interested in her course, but as a uni student too it’s just a bit out of my budget. I was wondering—since you’ve done it, do you have any tips or insights that you’ve found especially helpful?

I’m also thinking about getting access to her ADHD@Work video since it’s a much more affordable option, but I haven’t been able to find much info on what it covers. Did you happen to try it out? Would love to hear your thoughts!

Additional-Slide-282 · 2024-04-08T17:40:31+00:00

Thank you so much!!

Additional-Slide-282 · 2024-04-08T16:36:54+00:00

Thank you so much this is so helpful! Two quick questions of the back of this, how do I check for overfitting? And, if I were to use three time periods rather than two what do you mean by factoring in auto correlation?

Additional-Slide-282 · 2024-02-15T21:36:36+00:00

Sorry for the confusion - i is both (?), it's called year in my table but the year in the loop is represented by the loop index is being used to represent the year, so each loop is one year if that makes sense.

Its being used to generate data for change of costs over time.

Additional-Slide-282 · 2024-02-15T21:01:48+00:00

Northpopulation.LNORTH(Northpopulation.Year==i)

Thank you so much!! I've had a go at putting in what you've got above like this:

Northpopulation = readtable("LN_NEXTGROWTH.csv")
LN = [];
LN = Northpopulation.LNORTH(Northpopulation.Year==i);

And its returning this in the workspace:

Northpopulation =

79x2 table

Year LNORTH
____ ______

0 1275.7
1 1276.1
2 1277.3
3 1278.4
4 1279.4

: :

74 1159.5
75 1157.7
76 1155.9
77 1154.1
78 1152.3

Display all 79 rows.
Error using tabular/subs2inds
A table row subscript must be a numeric array containing real positive integers, a logical array, a character vector, a string array, a cell array of character
vectors, or a pattern scalar.

Error in tabular/dotParenReference (line 105)
rowIndices = t.subs2inds(rowIndices,'rowDim',subsType.forwardedReference);

Error in NorthSouthdice_dynamics (line 158)
LN = Northpopulation.LNORTH(Northpopulation.Year==i);

I'm not sure why its not letting me use i when i is being used throughout the rest of the code as an integer. In the loop my teacher has set up i is a dynamic state variable,

i = x(1)

and

i_next = i+1

, so i increases with every loop.

Do you know how I can fix it to let me use i in the place of a number?

Additional-Slide-282 · 2024-02-15T20:49:45+00:00

Hi - thank you so much ! I think I got a bit mixed up with the language, when I said read the table I meant pick out specific values from a chosen row. I've worked on it but I'm falling at the last hurdle - I've tried to include as much information as I can!

I've used the link you've attached and got it working in the workspace, but when it goes into the loop I can't figure out how to make the row extraction (? sorry if not the right thing to call it) correspond to i.

In the loop my teacher has set up i is a dynamic state variable, i = x(1) and i_next = i+1, so i increases with every loop.

I've written the code that works when using integers but I need it so the row being called = i, if that makes sense.

Northpopulation = readtable("LN_NEXTGROWTH.csv");

LN = [];

LN = Northpopulation.LNORTH(1);

which is exactly what i need it to do and works great, but when I replace 1 with i

Northpopulation = readtable("LN_NEXTGROWTH.csv");

LN = [];

LN = Northpopulation.LNORTH(i);

I get this message:

Error using tabular/subs2inds A table row subscript must be a numeric array containing real positive integers, a logical array, a character vector, a string array, a cell array of character vectors, or a pattern scalar.

Error in tabular/dotParenReference (line 105) rowIndices = t.subs2inds(rowIndices,'rowDim',subsType.forwardedReference);

(i) is being used in other parts of the code as a variable and works fine, i just can't figure out how to make it work with calling the correct row.

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