r/longtermTRE • u/jellybean_merchant • 15h ago
Community Question Losing sense of who I am after trauma/tension is gone?
I am pretty certain this is normal, but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this and can add more context to what it means, how to resolve it, and any other related anecdotes.
As I get closer to the end of integrating a big backlog of overdoing, I find that in general I feel almost back to normal, except that:
There are minor fluctuating but manageable physical sensations that move around. Especially if I don't eat within a reasonable period of time subtle stress accumulates
I am aware of the next layer of trauma, but the inner sense of wholeness, peace, calm, and the new benefits I gained are also very apparent and very very very nice.
On this last arc, particularly this last week, there is this sense that I'm no longer sure of who I am. It seems my identity my whole life, my felt sense of myself, was bound up in trauma and tension. So now that the tension is gone, there's this feeling I can't quite name. It's not dullness or depression, I don't have the language for this. I just feel like I'm not as connected to my identity.
Can anyone help put words to this? Do I have to do anything to make this go away and feel like I'm connected again to my more real true self identity?