Stressed

We just need words of support. We are really stressed today. We have been having a lot of triggers pop up at us out of the blue. It is causing us to switch rapidly today. I am typing this fast because I don't know when we'll switch so I have limited time to get this out. It is frustrating us that we seemed to doing so well and now we have fallen apart again. We just don't know what to do because we can't take time to ourselves because we have been switching non stop for the past six hours every thirty minutes or so. So we don't know what to do. We are stress and anxious. It is scaring us, especially some of the littles.

Well, we've been there and stress, especially the extreme version, isn't fun. Is the switching only a problem or are there advantages. I say this since we've found that we'll switch when any of us gets overwhelmed with pain or anxiety and this usually offers a benefit of not staying stuck. Sphinx does not allow the body to stay at a high level of stress for too long, which is probably healthy.

That may not be the case for you now. Can you say why you feel things are falling apart? Are you having intrusive memories? In any case, this will pass, most likely it will not continue for much longer.

Yes, we are having intrusive memories that are being caused by the stress. Right now it is not an advantage to be switching so many times because it's scaring the little that come out that they don't to stay out for a longer period of time and that they have no idea why they are coming and going from being out. I guess it was an advantage that one of our littles got more time out than we have been getting so she could calm the body a bit.

The stress is just getting the body worked up and then the switching puts more stress on the body. We don't really have a gatekeeper so we can't be blocked from coming out. The only one close to that hasn't been around for a couple of years. We just don't know what to do.