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    Art Therapy

    You should be proud of yourself. Discovering confidence you thought you didn't have and then to tap into is very empowering. I find art therapy to be a great thing. I find think art therapy and other experiential therapys to be very effective and therapeutic. To be able to help others to...
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    Ph.D Interview - I Didn't Make The Cut

    I will try to make this as concise and brief as possible. It was an all day process with four group interviews and a one on one (which was the last 30 minutes of the day). I certainly was a “fish out of water” among all the professionals, who had there Licenses and private practices, and/or...
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    Suddenly Not Able To Talk For Four Hours

    I will try and share more and see if I can identify feelings and what was going on. Everyone's responses helped to realize that I do not to be afraid of it. but to sort "of play it out" to discover what is undernearth all the emptiness.
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    Suddenly Not Able To Talk For Four Hours

    I was wondering if an anyone else had ever experienced this? I don't exactly know what this wa,s and wondered if any one else might have some kind explaination for it? I was already struggling from my therapy session earlier, but when I found the kids would be staying home an additional day I...
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    Turning A Corner! Excited!

    That is totally amazing. YOU should be proud of YOURSELF! I tell my kids that it is nice to have others be proud of you, but most important, YOU can be PROUD of you. When it boils down to it, that's even more important. I'm not quite there yet, but it is encouraging to know that others have...
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    Trying To Work Through Pain I Have Caused My Family

    I had a very painful session the other day, because I came in touch with the reality of what I had put my husband and kids through when my mental and emotional health was not stable. I'm trying to work through the gulit and shame for all the pain I have caused my family. I wonder if I will...
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    Why Do Sufferers Try To Push Away Their Loved Ones?

    I know it must be painful and frustrating to feel him "pulling away" and perhaps isolating himself from his family like that. I don't fully know your family situation, but I have PTSD I am sort of going through what you have mentioned going through. He may be struggling with with a lot of...
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    Ever Think Or Feel Others Can See Right Through Your Clothes

    I wanted to know if anyone else has ever had any of the experiences below. I have no control over when or where they come. They are very hard experiences to tolerate, and I was curious if others had them, because it is a very isolating, creepy feeling and experience. Unfortunately that are...
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    DID All things did - dissociative identity disorder : experiencing feelings only when in other identity

    I was wanting know what other DID"ers experiences have when expressing feelings. I am frustrated that when I function in my, so called, "base" identity I feel absoultly nothing. I walk around feeling like a dead person just existing in a body. My T has noticed that I only get in touch with...
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    Well, I'm In For The PH.D. Interview

    These are great ideas, thanks. Very helpful
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    Well, I'm In For The PH.D. Interview

    Gee, thanks everyone. It feels funny and awkward to get positive feedback, not use to it I guess. It's hard to see myself in a positive light. I've always been or always felt that I was "less than" in the areas that seemed to really count in life. Time for a change in that thinking. Ever...
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    Do Songs Ever Play Over and Over in Your Head?

    I have both the good, encouraging songs that fit my taste for music, as well as the stupid rhymes and songs my abuser sang to me in his attempt to appeal to me when I was very little and which he used to try and brainwash me. I keep trying to replace these horrible tunes with the ones that...
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    Well, I'm In For The PH.D. Interview

    Well, I wanted to let you know............ I was invitated in for an interview! It is on February 20th. I could use any positive vibes you can send my way. It is a little bit intimidating, however, when I found out it is an ALL DAY interview. Talk about stretching! I didn't think that...
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    The Challenge To Go For My PH.D.

    Thanks guys, I'll let you know if I get a call. The good thing is that it's got me looking for what I can do this coming year. I just need to remember not to slip back into the familiar patterns that are not pushing me forward.
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    Overcoming Dissociation By Facing Fears

    I have this "wall of fear" that I experience when I get sexually aroused by my husband and I end up "disappearing" and my husband ends up making love to what seems like a "lifeless" body, or I regress into the little child that was abused which puts my husband into the role of my past abuser...
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    Petrified Of Getting Old - Can Anyone Relate?

    I thank everyone for your responses to this thread. It helps alot to hear how many of you have worked through these issues and come to terms with old age. It helps to read the variety of ways that others approach old age too. I do need to be more active with life and giving into others...
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    The Challenge To Go For My PH.D.

    Yah, I was definitely reaching for the stars on this one. I was thinking that I might like to go for my PH.D in Counseling Education and Supervision, so I took the plunge and decided to apply. This was a huge undertaking just to complete the application process. I didn’t realize this was...
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    S & M - Its Relationship To PTSD?

    I appreciate the candid and honest discussion of this whole area. I am struggling and trying just to reach out for un derstanding in these areas, I guess. I hope this post does not upset anyone or cause problems, but I just had to say that I appreciate this discussion because currently I am...
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    Wounded By My In Laws - Not Sure How To Work Through This

    I I appreciate your support and comments. It's nice to know I'm not alone. I need to come to that place where I have to stop trying to prove to them that I am a capable mother, wife, etc. I need to accept that they will not understand my situation. I like what you said Marlene about unless...
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    Wounded By My In Laws - Not Sure How To Work Through This

    Last night when my husband and were in couple therapy and were addressing past relationships and/or situations where we had been hurt and how it effected our current relationship, I became aware of a wound that had not been dealt with yet. My husband's family confronted me with some very...
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    DID Connecting those who have dissociative identity disorder (did)

    Five years ago I was diagnosised with DID and I was said to have 15 different personalities each had a name and a particular funcition for me, but I had a "God" encounter and the different personalities seemed to go away or disappear. Back then I didn't even have clear memory of the sexual and...
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    Petrified Of Getting Old - Can Anyone Relate?

    I am so petrified of growing old. Pardon my descriptions if it offends somene, but I am scared of what happens to your body when you age. I am scared oif watching my body change and get all - aww I won't say but you know what I mean. Trying to face this fear is probably worse for me than...
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    Another New Addiction - Self Harm

    Hemel. I struggle with the same problem. It has lessened some, but it still happens. I have found that the more I focus on stopping it or NOT doing it the more it increases my urges to do so. So the less I make it an issue, surprisingly the less I do it. One other thing I will do at times...
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    Can Adults Have Night Terrors Too?

    I have nightmares where I would wake up choking, as if someone really was actually choking me, or demons being in my room trying to kill me. I'm not sure what this state of sleep this is, whether a night terror, nightmare or a flashback, but it happens sometimes in the afternoon when I try to...
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    Raising Kids When You Or Your Partner Has PTSD

    Wanted to share progress in this area. I started this thread almost a year ago, things are moving out of the walking on egg shells, confusionl, and chaotic relationship and lack of boundaries. I finally have been gaining strength tand a fraid to be firm and follow through withour getting suck...
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