what would be your ideal respite situation?

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I was in crisis at the hospital on Tuesday. I end up in crisis a lot and for the first time I was able to be closed in a dark room and left alone to just rest in a sensory controlled and sensory deprived environment. This was EXACTLY what I needed and I felt my brain and my body literally start a healing process within just a couple of hours. unfortunately I was only allowed to stay for four hours.

What would be the ideal crisis environment to help you guys recover when you are in crisis?

My yard is mostly a flower garden during the growing season.

I would need exactly what you described, skibum. Total sensory deprivation with darkness, no noise or smell, and no sensation except my chosen stims. I'm glad you had that opportunity to decompress.

I'm glad you got a chance to have the quiet and dark you needed. When I am super stressed, I just crawl into bed and sleep. But if it is just sort of stressed, being outside in the woods and swamp are healing to me.

Dark room, weighted blanket surrounding me, crash pad to lay on, left alone.

Thank you Blazing star I LOVE being out in nature as well. And if I can get on my bike on the rail trial or on a baby beginner mountain bike trail, I am a baby beginner mountain biker, or in my kayak, or hiking in the nature park, or with my friend's horses, visiting with taxidermy, or best of all, skiing the slopes on a day when the mountain is empty, I relish that. Those things are so therapeutic for me. I wish I could be safe in my own bed but I am never really safe there because there are so many people who play their stereos loudly in my area or who hang out on their porches and scream at each other even though the are sitting right next to each other or who play basketball in the street. I never know when I will have massive meltdowns or go into sensory overload shock when I try to rest in my own home.

When I am so critically neurologically assaulted and bombarded and overwhelmed, which is happening much more frequently now, I lose the ability to do the most basic things literally like breathing and walking and I have to go to a sensory controlled environment so that I can recover some of these functions. Otherwise I could have some very serious consequences.

Tell your friend to get a new therapist. S/he has to get away from that person. That kind of therapist will destroy him/her.

Sure. Dim lights, warm... Or outside, with the sunset's sun rays and cool breeze -- alone. With tools and materials or a pen and paper somewhere, or neither.


But that won't be enough as a best 'ideal'.
My best 'ideal' would also mean no annoying bodily reactions to distract myself from any respite. External accommodations won't be enough even if it's so easy to provide.

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Dark room
Ear plugs
Low Hz isochronic music
Pillow under my knee
Heavy pillow on my chest

All after 20 to 36 lap swimming lengths and a shower.