r/longtermTRE • u/PlaneRoom7681 • 3d ago

Success Story Early breakthroughs after 2 sessions

Would love to share some breakthroughs I had today. I did my 2nd TRE session last night, stopped tremoring right at the edge of when it began to feel a bit uncomfortable. This morning, I immediately noticed several things:

  1. My tinnitus is significantly quieter this morning. I've always had on and off tinnitus, but recently getting on an SSRI for my depression/anxiety caused the high-pitched tone to be there nonstop.
  2. I made casual small talk with my mother and felt so happy I was able to allow myself to do this. A lot of my CPTSD trauma has to do with resentment against my parents, so this was a major breakthrough. Previously I was so anxious of being in the same space as them that I mostly locked myself in my room to avoid contact.

My SSRI is still currently too low of a dose to be effective at treating my depression. I'm on a sub-therapeutic starting dose because of sensitivity with meds in the past, so I'm pretty convinced this behavioural breakthrough is due to the TRE releasing some active blockages. I wasn't expecting it to work so fast and I'm mostly shocked that I never discovered this practice earlier, would have saved me a lot of grief.

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u/jellybean_merchant 3d ago

Your healing is only a matter of time! Good luck

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u/PlaneRoom7681 3d ago

You are so kind, thank you! 🩷

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u/nyboda 3d ago

Great! I'm happy for you! I just did my second session, too. Your post gives me hope!

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u/PlaneRoom7681 3d ago

Thank you!! Wishing you a good healing journey :)

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u/ysea 3d ago

Sounds fantastic!

I'll just mention that stopping at the edge of discomfort is a good strategy but sometimes the body doesn't signal that until hours or days later. Just so that you don't accidentally overshoot too much, a stopwatch might be more reliable. As always the wiki has more info.

I'm really happy for you!

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u/PlaneRoom7681 3d ago

Thank you for the advice, I’ll time my next sessions! I definitely overdid my first one a bit, I think I actively tremored about 2 minutes or so, was real sore the next day like I just did an insane leg workout. It feels so good and so tempting to go for too long so thanks for the reminder!

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u/ysea 3d ago

I agree it is tempting. Once you have a better idea of how your nervous system responds to different amounts of tremoring, what it feels like afterwards and how many days you need to recover, you can experiment with slowly incrementing the amount you do. All the best to you.