Journaling
Then I thought; all sorts of negative stuff is pretty much inevitable. I am going to die; I am going to live while people I love die; I am going to lose friends, get sick, get stuck in traffic, etc etc. None of these are comfortable and they really shouldn’t be comfortable.
Accepting this would be a way past hypervigilance. But hypervigilance is looking for ways to dodge or parry instead of remise; that requires longer term thinking, something PTSD physically makes me bad at.
Journaling
What got me here was thinking also that how I’m introduced to really uncomfortable inevitable stuff makes a difference, once familiar or if presented in a non judgmental fashion some though not all of the sting goes away.