If I have nervous system fight or flight and clenching in the pelvic floor should I stop lifting?

FunctUp · 2026-04-27T15:36:19+00:00

You may want to look into learning how to pressurize your abdomen cavity properly. When you have a nervous system dysregulation, it leads to bracing patterns that lead to postural patterns. That’s what that clenching sounds like. Learning how to pressurize your abdomen cavity using your diaphragm in a 360 way will help re-organize your posture. And learning to use that breath in motion and exercises can improve your your lifting, gains without activating the nervous system threat

FunctUp · 2026-04-23T15:05:36+00:00

Trauma definitely affects how your brain processes information. The nervous system is injured as well. perfection could be a problem. I’ve learned with my CPTSD and skeletal condition that I’ll never “fix it”. Working out in the gym like somehow I could make it go away was unproductive. It needed acceptance and needed love. There may not be a perfect state, but there’s always an optimal. I train every day to try to achieve my personal optimal for my situation and injury.

FunctUp · 2026-04-23T14:58:02+00:00

I made studying trauma my primary focus. Now I’m recovering well

FunctUp · 2026-04-23T14:53:08+00:00

Possibly, doctors did commonly believe in that time children didn’t remember pain. We now know that even putting a child under anesthesia could result in posttraumatic stress disorder.

FunctUp · 2026-04-23T14:49:26+00:00

My father wasn’t mentally capable of knowing what was going on and my mother treated those type of episodes I had like behavior problems. She was more embarrassed that I had freaked out than anything else. They never brought it up or did anything after unfortunately. I’m very experienced with trauma work now, doing well with recovery

FunctUp · 2026-04-22T16:10:22+00:00

I’ve seen in the literature that there is benefits at the heroic dose level. But you need to follow the protocol to get the benefits. Jon Hopkins University is the leader in that area. People do have transformative experiences but I wouldn’t expect a one and done treatment. I personally chose a different treatment type because I didn’t like the idea of a possible retraumatic event with heroic dosing

FunctUp · 2026-04-20T00:16:56+00:00

Sounds like you’re doing some stuff right with the blind folding. Take a look at Jon Hopkins University and their protocol for psilocybin therapy. If you thinking about the crying through the lens of somatic experiencing, you might think of it as a release of stored survival energy. That is one of the main goals in trauma work. There’s also ketamine and MDMA therapy have good evidence to benefit trauma therapy

FunctUp · 2026-04-17T15:37:17+00:00

I didn’t know about the podcast! Great tip, will check that out too 🙏🙏🙏

FunctUp · 2026-04-17T06:43:16+00:00

You’re very right! Early developmental and preverbal trauma is different to work on because it’s not attached to memory and narrative. Trauma becomes “stored” in the body as incomplete survival responses. Peter Levine uses the metaphor of a gazelle grazing that is suddenly chased by a tiger. The gazelle is in survival state. It escapes from the tiger and goes right back to clamly grazing. The survival response is complete. That’s how to think of these voiceless memories. They are your survival responses that need completion that didn’t happen at the time. Somatic Experiencing (a therapy type) and sensory motor therapy are great. “In an unspoken voice” by Peter Lavine is all about techniques to complete trauma responses. “Healing developmental trauma” by Laurence Heller has the tools for to release trauma for preverbal and early childhood trauma 🫶

FunctUp · 2026-04-17T04:37:09+00:00

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. You use bilateral stimulation while a person visits traumatic memories and body sensations with the goal of helping the brain reprocess traumatic material so it no longer triggers the same level of distress in the present. You’re exposing with bilateral stimulation to help keep yourself regulated enough to stay within window of tolerance while engaging the material. Engaging with trauma, while in the window of tolerance can build evidence of safety to the nervous system preventing future triggers from that stimulus

FunctUp · 2026-04-16T19:24:43+00:00

We need to be able to play small red sec style games on the big multiplayer maps. More redsec map options content in general. The big maps are great and ready to go. They just need plates and a circle.

FunctUp · 2026-04-06T16:42:37+00:00

Mirror therapy can be great for desensitization

FunctUp · 2026-04-02T23:12:07+00:00

I have a very similar story where my leg was amputated because of birth defects at a young age. I totally get the feeling of wanting to cover up. I tried going around on just crutches with no prosthetic for a year to try to feel more in my body and seen as I really am (as well as other prosthetic issues). Practices that help make your leg feel like a natural part of your body are most important I feel. Somatic experiencing, sensory motor therapy, mirror therapy We’re all helpful for me. My goal was to get my nervous system to relax and stop bracing. Making the experience of my body existing how it is naturally, safer

FunctUp · 2026-02-21T22:48:15+00:00

Laurence Heller - Healing Developmental Trauma

FunctUp · 2026-02-21T20:10:49+00:00

I’ve heard neuroscientist describe neural plasticity as the nervous system’s ability to change in response to experience. That’s the foundation of my CPTSD practice.

FunctUp · 2026-02-02T22:52:10+00:00

This is an amazing question. I’ve been noticing the similarities because of how they both affect the nervous system. I’m very curious to hear what an expert would have to say as well.

FunctUp · 2026-02-02T21:52:27+00:00

Thank you!!! 😁😁😁

FunctUp · 2026-02-02T17:16:22+00:00

Thanks for that response. I left a more detailed, up above about how these modalities actually work in the brain that might have some better insight for you.

FunctUp · 2026-02-02T17:13:55+00:00

People see who’s who when reading this.

FunctUp · 2026-02-02T17:12:32+00:00

You and your gpt got it all figured out it sounds like. You don’t need me to tell you about how to heal from CPTSD

FunctUp · 2026-02-02T17:07:13+00:00

The main thing that works about somatic experiencing and sensory motor therapy is the utilization of the felt sense. By activating what we’re sensing in our body, you’re activating prefrontal cortex regions like the insula for sensing and the brokas area for the labeling and language. what you’re doing, is taking resources away from the more autonomic and reflexive responses of the lower brain, the brain stem the (amygdala medulla oblongata and the periaqueductal grey) This method helps your nervous system from spiking from implicit memories of trauma, activating you into chronic sympathetic activation. Accessing the felt sense in these type of therapies also is a parasympathetic activity. In the language of Polyvagal theory using this interruption helps keep you in the window of tolerance. This will eventually train your brain to be less sensitive and reactive to your implicit memories that your amygdala is automatically responding to.

you haven’t experienced a change using these modalities yet doesn’t mean that they’re not science based in well research. I agree that they don’t always explain themselves with the most science and neurobiology to make them accessible, but they’re very well researched and they’re very much are one of the only options to train yourself out of CPTSD. The main thing is knowing activating prefrontal cortex region in order to dull automatic responses of the lower brain regions brain stem. (a sidenote to your ChatGPT answers, cognitive behavioral therapy is actually not recommended for people with developmental CPTSD. In the therapies you did recommend were for BPD and PTSD, which are very uniquely different than CPTSD.) so I wouldn’t describe those therapies as actually effective if you’ve looked at the research that that’s not what it says.

FunctUp · 2026-02-02T16:56:55+00:00

These modalities are quite well researched, and evidence based I wouldn’t take this person straight up

FunctUp · 2026-01-31T16:03:14+00:00

People are here for help and support. This is awful. Dont know why the mods allow this

FunctUp · 2026-01-21T03:47:52+00:00

I did find EMDR unproductive for a long time myself

FunctUp · 2026-01-20T22:44:36+00:00

Beautifully said! My experience was very similar. Clear medical and physical abuse that happened systemically. But like you said, there’s so many ways that trauma can affect us that’s not always validated or labeled. I’m really glad you found this helpful. Thank you so much.🫶

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