Yeah it sounds like a really horrific evening Luna and you're doing fantastically just to be getting through it.
Okay so it sounds like your mind is being dragged back to a time when you were unsafe and you want to keep people safe because of that, but you are safe now. Nobody is hurting you now my lovely and as far as I know nobody else was hurt at the time? If they were it wasn't your fault. So you and the voices are trying to protect us based on a memory and there is no need for that.
I don't know if it ever helps to communicate with the voices? Please ignore this if it doesn't but what if you were to say something like you understand they're just trying to protect other people in the same way that you're trying to but there is no need to because this is just a memory which isn't happening now and no one else was at risk.
So maybe try and focus on where you are right now. It's the year 2017 and you're safe and then gather around you you things that help you feel safe. Grounding might help here. The only grounding exercise I know is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. As in five things you can see, 4 things you can hear, touch smell and taste etc just in case you were struggling to think of one.
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