Thank you so much for your response [USER=13142]@Kobranek[/USER]
I too feel like I'm turning my wheels and not really getting anywhere often times.
Your timing in responding to this thread has some irony as I have been very very on edge the last few days, almost having a couple of anxiety attacks yesterday. There was no discernable reason. Today it's a great deal of anxiety and irritability.
I'd say we all have trauma of varying sorts and degrees, but not necessarily PTSD. One of the main factors to trauma is our response to an event that causes trauma. And this response is automatic and influenced by degrees of sensitivity (I'm a highly sensistive person for example). Various individuals can be put through the same experience and that experience can be traumatic for only a few. It seems that some events are likely to be more traumatic for more people than other types of events.
My potential trauma/PTSD from DMT is something I'm exploring only because of how difficult it is for me to comfortably approach the experience. When I plan to go to the gym I just go, but with DMT, if I plan a trip then there are all of these other things I have to do mentally to then be okay with my decision. This is likely tied to childhood trauma as well. However, with everything we're discussing, DMT seems to help the most and the most consistently.
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A couple other things that resonate with me in particular in this moment as i sit with all this aside from being on edge is the suicidal ideation which happens a few times a year, as well as paranoia and trust issues, especially trusting myself which can translate into psychedelic spaces.