The Power of Distractions
Has your marriage or relationship ended abruptly? Have you recently lost someone? PTSD? Trauma? Narcissist discard or simply abandoned when you were in a marriage or relationship? Then what you need is to be distracted . There are plenty of videos and blogs about how to temporarily distract yourself for a few seconds or minutes if you feel panicked or anxious. It works. What they don't tell you is that longer distractions also work wonders! Distractions will help you heal. So what do you do? Distract yourself or let yourself be distracted! Call in help from friends, colleagues, family - let them distract you and temporarily relieve your mind of what happened to you. Maybe now is the time to reconnect with old friends as well? A distraction is not an escape. Y our memories, trauma and experiences will come with you wherever you go. They won't suddenly go away! You should do do anything that temporarily switches your thoughts to other things than your trauma.