Dear Dr. Attwood.
I am a single mother of 4 wonderful girls.
I am now under diagnosis and probably 99.9% an Aspie. I´ve been diagnosed with (complex)PTSD (after sexual abuse both in childhood and as an adult with elements of torture ). I also have synesthesia in forms of see sounds in color, feel the taste of things I´m looking at and kind of colors of people’s feelings. In my way of thinking it´s logical that the synesthesia is the vulnerable idiosyncrasy that keeps nurcering the PTSD. Sometimes it makes me feel beyond hope because my children triggers my symptoms and they are now living most of the time with their dad.
Question!
a) Is there any research about connections between synesthesia and PTSD? If so...how to deal with the issues?
I participate in a DBT-program, that and medication (SSRI) are very helpful dealing with my catastrophic emotions and meltdowns, but when it comes to the dissociative behavior and nightmares (that makes me exhausted) I´m feeling helpless. I avoid news and shows on TV and radio to not overload my head with information.
b) IF synesthesia is an idiosyncrasy for C-PTSD, does treatments like EMDR really going to work then, or is it a waste of time?
I´ve learned that EMDR can treat PTSD but it sounds so boring! In my understanding the EMDR works by encircle and compress the feelings and memories that are flying around in the brain like mosquitoes....creating a balance between the cerebral hemispheres. That is pretty much the same thing as writing a Japanese Haiku poem in my point of wiev. So I try to treat myself by capture my feelings in the form of Haiku. I don´t know if it’s working yet, but at least I´m having fun in the meantime.
Kind regards,
Aifos
(from Sweden)
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