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thank you for talking about Freeze!! I struggled after my assault w the fact that I froze. I was actually unable to move and I'm a tough feminist who likes to believe I can fight whatever is thrown at me but my body responded and said "just stop and wait for it to be over". I carried a lot of blame about that until my therapist told me freeze was the third evolutionary reaction to attack that we don't always talk about. Thank you thank you. That reality is so important to so many survivors.
I am so sorry that happened to you :( Thank you for sharing your experience with freeze.. this will help others feeling that same way. xoxo
Yes! I had a similar experience. I had never heard of the freeze response, despite having taken courses in psychology as well as biology. When my psychologist first said "fight, flight, or freeze" I thought she was making it up. I thought something was wrong with me and carried so much guilt for so long. It's so important to make people aware that the freeze response is real and not something to feel ashamed for having experienced. Thank you for talking about it in this video. Thank you for doing this series.
loliejane so sorry that happened to you too. It kind of adds to the confusion and terror when your body stops working. You aren't alone and it wasn't your fault
Thank you ❤️ Same to you. I really appreciate the support, and you sharing your experience. I'm so sorry you went through it, but I felt less alone after reading it.
Julia S Yes, I can relate, when I was assaulted by pushing me hard from behind in an adult classroom by a black guy, I froze instead of yelling and I didn't deal with it.
This really help I aways couldn't get past the fact that I never said or did anything to stop my abuse but seeing the hole freeze thing is so helpful.
nerd3.0 agreed!
I am SO glad this was helpful :) It can be hard to figure out why we couldn't move.. glad this helped a bit. xoxo
This was so interesting and easy to follow along. I can only imagine how many people you've sincerely helped through all the incredible content you have Kati. I'm partially envious of what you've created here and the incredible impact you are making on TH-cam -- reaching the darkest, most pained places in your viewers' hearts and bringing light, hope and healing. While I'm not a professional, I have a big heart to love and encourage people and see them attain breakthrough, and though I'm still in my humble beginnings here on TH-cam I have such a passion to bright light and life to others through my videos, helping them rethink themselves and life and realize how loved they are by God and how much purpose he had in creating them. I'm on the journey of overcoming in my life and want to herd every other hurting person with me into the light, freedom and joy that is found in the intimate, personal love of God.💖 grateful for you Kati for the beautiful impact you are making. 😊xo kaylyn
Thank you for such a sweet message Kaylyn. xoxo Made my day!! xoxo
Been unable to sleep and the insomnia is uppp there and I cant stop thinking how i am gonna die or something crazy from simply going to get coffee w someone not sociopathic
That tunnel thing she was talking about while explaining freeze is exactly what I get. I thought I was just weird and I had no idea what to call it. I'm glad I have a name for it now. Thank you both for this video.
Kati sounded so happy.. what an insightful conversation, quite literally called me out.. Had no idea i was traumatized until I watched this. Thank you so much for sharing
i see my social worker (jan 3rd) today. this just explained soooooo much that I need to talk about tonight. the freeze sounds exactly what I feel like. thank you soooooooo much, you have zero idea how helpful this is!!!
Yay!! So glad it was helpful :) Isn't Alexa the best?!? xoxo
I'm currently in college to become a social worker and am so glad I came across your videos. I have so much to learn to help others and even help myself. I believe I've had a lot of traumas as a child and even in my young teen years, and now that I'm on my own in college, I think I've found my safe place, but I don't feel completely normal. I think I will go to therapy to see if I can get it taken care of!
This was so helpful and interesting. For the past 5 months or so in therapy I'm either like full body shaking or completely dissociated and not there at all, so we've literally started doing nothing other than trying to get me to stay in my window of tolerance while I'm there. It feels like wasting time but today my therapist was talking about how we are just trying to stabilise me enough to get used to staying present in the room before we get in to anything. and it feels really frustrating because it takes so long (for me at least) and makes me feel like I'm too weak but it was helpful to watch this and see its actually kind of normal especially if it's all you've known before. 😊 thank you.xoxo 😘
Oh and I love the graph! I've been shown it before but hearing about why it's scary to even try to go back in the tolerance window was so helpful 👏 my therapist is always saying how that's what we're trying to do and I'm like but it doesn't feel safe to do that, why would I want to?! It was helpful to hear that's normal and can change gradually too 😊
Thank you so much for sharing what you are working on right now :) I am glad that this was helpful and reminds you that you are making progress and are strong enough to do the work.. you just need to get used to what being in the resilient zone feels like. xoxo
I'm so grateful this series exists. This was displayed so calmly it felt therapeutic to watch and listen. It made me cry happy thankful tears.
Awe :) So glad you liked it and it was helpful :) xoxo
Thank you Kati! the four years of high school for me gave me a tone of trauma and 2 years later i'm still trying to find ways to cope with the worst 4 years of my life. To this day I feel like my life won't get better. but your videos are always helpful!
Ben Tallard I'm believing in a lighter brighter future for you!
I'm so, so glad I've found out about freeze and dissociation/derealisation. Fight or flight didn't fit my responses and I've always felt like my mental ill health didn't fit into any of the categories I was hearing about which was really upsetting in itself. I feel like there is hope!! Thank you so much for your videos x
I think you two hit the nail on the head regarding my response to the trauma I endured from birth to well into adulthood. I have always frozen when traumatized, and I truly had nowhere to run and no way to fight. To this day, at 48 years old, I still respond the same way to triggers. As well, I seem to be resisting my therapist's gentle efforts to bring me into the "A Zone" because 1) it is entirely foreign and 2) I only trust myself to watch for danger (which is everywhere!!!). I hope that whenever I can get my service dog, these things will begin to change.
thank you for this video. this makes so much sense. i'm wheelchair bound and have dealt with a lot of trauma and dissociate quite often and i'm also hyper aware of my surroundings. always looking over my shoulder
Thank you so much for sharing these videos to the world. I have been suffering 24/7 depersonalization for 7 years. I also developed very specific phobias at the same time. After watching your stuff, I realized that there might actually be hope for me in getting out of this brain fog/high. I found someone and was diagnosed with PTSD about a week or so again. And I’m weirdly happy to know that I’m not dying or insane. I’m starting trauma therapy now and while I know it won’t be an instant fix, I feel hopeful that I just might be able to reconnect to my surroundings and feel awake again. Thank you.
EmuEmi it Will get better with help, life can become normal (again). Speaking from my own experience.
Good luck with the therapy, and don't Lose hope!
Kati and Alexa
The last three weeks have been amazing! I have been looking for relatable, accurate resources that align with the research from A.P.S.A.T.S. for the healing o myself and others. I loved this counsel so much that I decided to use it as a foundation for a topic study in a group I moderate for women who, like me, are recovering from Betrayal Trauma due to the addiction of our partners. The response was so positive and helpful that we decided to create Resiliency Boxes and keep a database of what we are putting in our boxes. I plan to do the same for kids. Thank you so much for creating these videos. You have no idea what good you have done in my world. 💕
I really enjoyed this clipboard and how you broke down the fight or flight experiences. I'm someone who suffers from dissociation and ptsd and anxiety. This episode was so helpful. It explains what I'm going through. Thanks so much. This was helpful
I can so relate, I feel my resilience zone is very small at the moment and I know that already. And I remember a couple years back when I was with my abusive family I felt as if I was dying even though I was 22. I took naps during the day, couldn't sleep at night, couldn't keep my head up, stumbled while walking and couldn't think. I very much have felt the exhaustion from not coming back to a safe place, which I'm still trying to seek out and find now.
I' be got PTSD and this was so helpful! Thanks a lot :) also Alexa Altman is talking in such a calming way ^_^
Thank you so much for this video, Kati. I have no realized that I was in a sort of freeze state that I had no idea how to get out of for a few weeks at the end of the year, and now I will talk to my therapist about how I can get myself back in the resilient zone instead of being at the top or bottom.
Thank you! You put into words what I feel. I am hyper vigilant and it brings me a lot of problems later because I can't focus anymore.
Dang! This video has made a lot of things make sense for me! Processing my emotional baggage is something that has always seemed so daunting to me, but this video has helped to put it into perspective! It doesn’t have to be as overwhelming as I thought!
I don't have a safe place
Elisaí Otero-Figueroa that sounds awful. praying that you find one❤ you are so valuable and so loved.
Elisaí Otero-Figueroa me neither
Elisaí Otero-Figueroa this comment breaks my heart. I hope you found one
Elisaí Otero-Figueroa same
You deserve a safe place. Praying you all find one soon and can start or continue your healing process. It can help you better identify or find your safe place ❤
Thank you so much! This is so helpful. I have been waiting for this for ages 💜💜💜
this video made everything so much clearer, everything makes more sence now esp the freeze response and why it happens
Yay! I am so glad it was helpful :) xoxo
this was pretty interesting. it helps paint a picture I can understand. I've spent my whole life going between the high zone and the low zone. I've always thought the low zone was regulation and now that I'm getting older and learning more I'm finding out I don't really know what regulation is or feels like and I'm lost but seeing something physical and not have it cluttered in my head really really helped me. thank you for this video!
Amazing video Kati, very helpful.
My new year got off to a rocky start but I'm still going to work for my goals no matter what.
Going back to school tomorrow, so glad.
MuzicLoverForever sounds like you're pretty resilient 😘 you're going to have a great year!
Trauma therapy is so helpful for many different people and diagnoses! Thank you for sharing! :)
You are great together!
Yay! I am so glad you think so :) xoxo
honestly one of the best videos!
Yay!! So glad you liked it!! xoxo
Hi Kati :) Can you be depressed and still be able to function. I find myself constantly sad for no reason and I always have the worst thoughts going through my head...But it doesn't stop me from my everyday life. I still go to work and put on a smile and I still do things that need to be done. I definitely feel that I'm not okay, but sometimes I wonder if it's normal to feel so down and out of it all the time.
I’m pretty sure it’s called high functioning depression and she has a video on it if you’re still wondering about it
Can you do more videos about the low zone or freeze zone, please?
This was super helpful because I’m looking into trauma therapy to come to terms with my rape. I’m gonna do it. Thanks so much
omg i love this pairing... so chill... so discharging
Kati, I'm happy that you've gotten around to this topic and underlying areas! I look forward to watching your up and coming videos with Dr.Alexa. Happy New Years Kinions! Here's to 2017: a continued journey of health, healing, and happiness! 💕💪🏼
Lauren Myers happy New Years!
Yay!! I hope you enjoy the other videos just as much :) xoxo Happy 2017!
this was so helpful.....I never knew about the freeze zone. this makes so much sense to me. I have been this way for 20 years now. and I didn't know what it was.
Question: with traumas such as sexual abuse or rape, is it even possible to come out of it without PTSD? I understand that not everyone develops PTSD after a traumatic event, but to me it seems impossible to go through that sort of trauma unscathed.
Rachel Sonia Well, both of your points are correct. See, like you said, not everyone develops PTSD after a traumatic event, but there are many ways of being "scathed", so to speak, by a trauma.
it depends on the support you get after the traumatic experience. you're less likely to get traumatized if you have a good support system that validates your experiences and makes you feel safe.
Rape can cause temporary trauma or lifetime trauma, it depends on the circumstances. I say that from my own experience. The rape did not traumatize me forever and for long time because the rapist was caught in act, he was arrested and got trial, when the rapist get punished, you get a relief, and it happened 40 years ago; while a group of 10 to 15 people abusing me at work bulling me affecting the quality of my personal and professional life that really tramatized me and I had to sue the company to stop the abuse because when you are bullied ad being discriminated at work you won't succeed you will fail completely or be a mediocre employee. I could put up the bullies for another 20 years but it would kill me physically and mentally. Don't let bullies get in your way, report them and sue them and the people that encourages the bullies.
OMG thank you gals. This helped me understand what I'm going trough so much more thoroughly.
Thank you. This was a great video! I learned a lot in the simple demonstration. Glad a found your channel.
Really really good video. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!
Such great information! I really enjoyed the visuals :) so helpful in learning the information.
I've been taught this graph as the window of tolerance in therapy, in the uk :) This was a great video btw! 💕
This is so interesting and explains a lot. Super helpful :) excited for more of these videos!
This was really helpful. It gave me some insight on my own experiences. Thanks!
Caitlin Victory 🙏
Thank you both for putting this video together!
Last Nov. I developed a panic disorder and had no idea what was going on for two months, scariest experience of my life. I had some “spiritual gurus” telling me it was “enlightenment.” Ugh… you can imagine how that freaked me out further. (that’s a story for another time)
Since Nov. I’ve processed a lot of traumatic memories/feelings that I had NO idea needed processing. I thought it was all in the past and done with. I’m doing considerably better now and am also on meds to give me more room to work through them.
My question is, how do you know when you’ve processed all the hidden traumatic memories? Is there a way to know? Especially when you’re on meds and more stabilized?
This was amazing, as usual. Thanks Kati :)
Such a good, helpful video! Thank you! Can't wait to see more.
Yay!! so glad you liked it :) xoxo
Would you be able to make a video about paranoid personality disorder?
Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing
now I am still a juvenile but this helps cuz I want to go into mental health professional
Omg I've been so traumatized. I never got a chance to come back down because shortly after I went into a rigorous graduate program and it made it worse. I don't know what's left of me now.
Really appreciated this
yessss been waiting for this😘
good stuff Kati! Big Up Dr. Alexa.
this was I really helpful video, as I have struggled to understand why I react and why I am the way I am. (i am working on it with my therapist)
And I have realised that I spend most of my time in the high zone as a kind of hyper-awareness for being able to "protect" myself as my therapist called it, but as I have never been able to fight or flight I go to the low zone really fast wich for me often means a numbness and dissociation.
I will also mention that for me it has been a lot of big T's and a couple of small t's wich might have resulted in why I change that much all the time.
But I would really like some videos about how to work on this :) (and I hope that that will be in some of the coming videos you are making together with her :D)
Could you please talk about secondary trauma, Kati?
happy new year Kati!
Happy New Year!! xxo
Can you do a video on somatic therapy including Rolfing?
This is me. I’m exhausted by life. I’m looking forward to my trauma therapy.
thx for another awesomely ha bisky vid i love this so much and i was catching up in youtubeland but there was a 3 hour video i was watching and i ended up hanging out with a friend today
omg. is this what happened to me??? I am a 3x cancer survivor suffering from chronic pain and the week before Thanksgiving I had pneumonia and I began drowning and had to dial 911. I lost consciousness and came back in ambulance. I had pneumonia and sepsis and almost died. ever since then I have been a mess. I have had nightmares and I feel like I am someone else floating outside myself. my wife wants to commit me cause she says I'm not me. I don't know what to do
Just wanted to say you are both beautiful and have amazing hair
Can one be on "freeze" for a number of years? Only to jump to action on the other spectrum for a limited period of time and then down to "freeze" again. Like when one used to have a lot of vitality, but its gone? Add to that loss of husband, loss of job and a country about to go into civil war? - living on the edge financially and on a wing and a prayer after living in fear in other ways before the freedom of leaving a toxic relationship? I go from frantic super focus to sleeping for days and I feel guilty. But I know what happened to us was not normal and what we're facing is not normal. But then .... define normal in an insane world? If I forget to pray in the morning, I'm done! But I do go from total "freeze" to "frenzy" and would appreciate a website or information I can research on what it is I'm supposed to be looking for to help me understand. Many thanks.
Can you talk about
bipolar disorder and Add and ADHD please thanks
So is PTSD similar to bipolar?
Hey kati could you make a video on emotional abuse by parents to their kids? I'm ALWAYS being told how much of a dissapointment I am and how much I screw up is this emotional abuse and how do I get over it even if it's still happening?
For years my hands would shake when I told the story of the guy who held a knife to my throat.
Could you do some lessons more about what she talk at the chart at 9:50
So fantastic
Yes! Subscribed!
Brilliant!
I recently got my masters in counseling and art therapy. I wanted to know the best recommendation for trauma therapy certificate? thank you so much
I did lots of EMDR in the past and right now my therapist and I are working on trying to figure out where we are missing some pieces...so we've turned to some art and dialogue to figure out where the holes are. Yesterday was especially intense...I fell asleep way too early, woke up really early in the morning (like 4am) and haven't been able to stop crying, but can't figure out why. I think I'm just exhausted from the therapy today. How can I stop being so damn tired after trauma sessions?
Hi Sean!
Sean says "Hi Maya!"
I have been in a sociopath situation my entire adult life. Im 57, and in the dissociation part i guess. I feel suicidal but just sleep and stay in my room. I need help but have no one i can count on. I have lost everyone. My problem is i have my own apartment finally but live in a olace that is run by either a sociopath or a psychopath and evryone upsets me so i hide in my room. I dont want to do anything and have been this way for years with only a few , very few times in between where i was a little better. I live in fight or flight mode but dont want to do anything and have been feeling suicidal. My worry is i have 2 cats and my bills and what am i going to do with them. The only 3 people that actually half care about me have to work and have their own families. What will i do with my kitties , and if i get behind the nasty jerk that runs this place will kick me out immediately. I need help. Badly. What will i do. Im scared. I cant lose my kitties they love me and depend on me. I have no one and my first ex of 25 years with 3 breaks in the next ten turned all but one child against me with lies and even she gets angry with me and doesnt really believe its that bad. Im alone. What do i do?????
I aam frozen
Hey katie. Do you have any suggestions on how to find a truma therapist and get set up with them? I just moved to spokane washington and very unfamiliar with the area.
Okay so I have a question. My younger bro has high functioning autism. My dad did not believe in that growing up and so used to try and "beat" it out of him. It would be really intense spankings and yelling. Throwing him around (but never into anything) and I have a really hard time saying that's abusive because in the eyes of the law it was all legal but I'm pretty sure I was traumatized by it. I would try and protect him and after telling my dad to leave him alone I would be shaking so bad. When I was in my room or shower I would hear my brother screaming only to come running out and realize it was just my imagination. I was constantly afraid and would always be sick to my stomach and I never knew why. I was terrified of adults and even at the age of 23 have a hard time talking to people older than me or people in authority. Would you consider me to be "traumatized" and how do you reconcile the traumatic experiences with it being legal. I feel like I'm lying when I tell people
I came from an abusive home but I don't know how else to tell people and have them understand all the shit I went through. Does that make sense? Lol. What are your guy's thoughts?
By far my favourite video EVER!!!
(Tiny tad bias as this is what I do 🙈😂)
Hey Kati, I was wondering if people stop cutting do they go through withdrawal?
tiff lau I'm not a doctor or a therapist but I'd say there is some sort of withdrawal because it is addicting. I'd like to see what Kati says tho :)
I dealt with my parents constantly arguing growing up, I don't feel secure talking to any1 close or in the same household, does this have anything to do with how I was raised?
Does depression due to trauma differ in any way than other types of depression? And do you treat it differently? For me no antidepressant ever helps and some say it's because the depression comes from ptsd. I'm waiting to start traumatherapy but I'm not allowed to start it until I'm more stable, but at the same time I'm not getting any better by just waiting. I'm so unsure what to do. I currently stay in a residential treatment center but I'm not allowed to talk abot the difficult things that happens they just give me haldol (which sort of helps temporarily) and want me to sit and colour, make bracelets and things like that. I don't understand how colouring is supposed to make me better? I can understand that you need to distract sometimes but it doesn't help in the long run. I feel so frustrated. Here I'm not allowed to choose where to go, the social services decides for you, so I'm kind of stuck here. And they only pay for 6 months so I have to go back home in 4 months. It feels kind of not good to just distract all the time when there is so little time to work on the more difficult things. So I guess my question is what do I do to get stable enough to start trauma work?
Love these videos. It helps to understand myself more.
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i need this but i don't think i can get it under the nhs :(
It never hurts to ask your GP and see about a referral :) xoxo
Kati Morton unfortunately some professionals don't think I need it even tho nightmares and thoughts about my "trauma" affect me daily for months so I think it's an issue which needs to be sorted
I wanna try Trauma Therapy, for my ptsd.. has anyone tried it ?? how was your experience if you did ??
idk, I have tried DbT twice, but its not that effective at all to me, so I wanna try other things/treatment
Trauma therapy can work really well for PTSD... in all truth, that is why it was created :) xxo I would look into it for sure! xox EMDR has also helped many of my clients with PTSD.
I quit my Mental health job
Katie needs to let the Dr. finish her thought....calm down...please. Breathe..
I'm really glad my therapist doesnt talk like Alexa, I think that would probably bother me on therapy
#katifaq I was wondering how to get the tough subjects out in therapy. There are a bunch of things that need to be addressed/worked on for me but I just can't figure out how to bring them up or while I'm in therapy I convince myself that basically they aren't real issues or I'm making them up but then after therapy all the issues come back.
Please share the video on your social media (twitter, facebook reddit etc) By sharing you never know who you might be helping :) Thanks for watching! xoxo
true ma'am.We got along way togo with mental health stigma but spreading awareness & educating is always a good idea
Kati Morton Thank you for this video! It's really helpful..
Kati Morton Thank you 💟
So glad you liked it :) xoxo
You are very welcome :) xox
I'm so glad you made this video Because I'm starting trauma therapy for my ptsd
Jasius Sanchez me too
Yay! Perfect timing :) xoxo
I think there should be a video talking about the "freeze" and "fight or flight" responses with caracteristics of each and why some people get "up" or "down" and how steps to bring them to the resilience zone differ depending on the "up" or "down" zones.
Useful information. Thanks
I think when I went in for treatment Dr. Alexa was one of my trauma team therapist. The best therapy I've ever received. So thank you.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I am happy to hear that you are connected to Kati's channel. Best mental health info out there in you tube.
Dr. Alexa Altman hi I've only had one treatment ever work for me. But what I'm finding is real Trauma Therapy is different. My trauma happened 5years ago but I was wanting a brush up with a similar course. I have yet to find a similar program. My therapist seems to think she's educated with trauma but...... This just isn't the case. I believe.
:( I'm diagnosed with Sever Depression, anxiety, panic attacks, Bipolar2 and PTSD.
Dr. Alexa Altman I have extensive trauma, my issue is my body reacts. Like I talk to my therapist and then all of a sudden I feel the pain my body remembers the abuse.. I can’t shut it off feels so un normal..
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This is really, immensely helpful, thank you so much for this! I don't feel like I know anything 'safe enough' I'm stuck in the freeze response (Depersonalisation) at the moment. I've not had any success yet with pulling myself back into resilience. I have BPD too which really doesnt help when I've snowballed into negativity. Are there any suggestions for what I can do to get out of freeze response? I really want to work through my Traumas and process them so I can be a better me :) thank you
So is flashbacks in the high zone or low zone? B/c when I have flashbacks I'm replaying the trauma but in a dissociative state.
It's 4am and I just randomly woke up and saw this notification! My body knew I needed this. Xox
Yay!! xoxo
Kati Morton xox
wow. this blew my mind... so how do i fix trauma if i cant get away from what caused it?
This is SO ME.. I have been STUCK, my Whole Life, in the Fight Mode, Hyper Vigilance and I am Exhausted!!!!
I’ve been terribly bullied in high school and I’ve had two suicide attempts after the event. I’ve had terrible anxiety but it’s getting better. I have been diagnosed with ADHD and autism. The suicide attempts traumatized me just as much as the bullying did. But more traumatizing.
I'm sorry to hear you were bullied. I hope you are feeling better and still here.
Can you please do a video on ADHD please? thank you love u Kati! :)
Thank you for passing those links on :) you are the best!! xoxo