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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    Well, I don´t know, it seems like hair-splitting business to my mind. From what I understood is, what the difference between a trauma and a difficult or painfull event (like "having your boyfriend dump you") is, is that the brain stores it differently. With trauma, the brain is overwhelmed and...
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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    "An adjustment disorder (AD) occurs when an individual is unable to adjust to or cope with a particular stressor, like a major life event. Since people with this disorder normally have symptoms that depressed people do, such as general loss of interest, feelings of hopelessness and crying, this...
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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    What do you mean by that? Nope, that is not why. This is something she "newly" discovered in one session, when I was triggered and dissociated. Only after that she said it was trauma and she newly added this. She also said she didn´t have personal experience with trauma, but had other patients...
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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    abstract, I don´t know for sure. My therapist doesn´t talk much diagnoses. I know that she had to write something to the insurance company. In the beginning she wrote history of eating disorder and adjustment disorder. Only 4 or 5 months later, she diagnosed "trauma" and sent that to the...
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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    radicalgratitude, thank you for your answer! I found it very interesting, what you´re saying! Exactly! I was once in a clinic for eating disorders, when I was already back on my normal weight though, and I definitely felt out of place. There was a lot of talking about people´s parents...
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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    Psychoanalyst, yes right. That´s what I meant. I don´t know, that is just the regulation set by the insurance companies
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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    Hey Hashi, well- that is correct. I am not seeing a trauma specialist at the moment, my T is specialized on eating disorders. Yes, as I said, I read here and on numerous other places that people said: it´s really beneficial if not necessary to see a trauma specialist. I am not hoping for a...
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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    I agree with you completely. However, what he said was that a therapist specialized on trauma, was like a general physician specialized on colds....
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    Was Told By A Psychoanalytic That You Don´t Need "trauma Therapist" For Trauma

    I was told today by a psychoanalytic that every therapist can treat trauma and there weren´t many trauma therapists. I find this confusing because it´s the opposite of what I´ve read and heard many times. He said that only when you´ve got single trauma and flashbacks it COULD be helpful to...
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    My T Says It Has To Do With My Mother

    I´m sorry it took me so long to reply. I was overwhelmed the couple of days ago and needed a break from all things concerning my inside... Hm, I think my T has done a lot for me in the past, even if it wasn´t really trauma related or much of trauma therapy, I think she still helped me a big...
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    My T Says It Has To Do With My Mother

    thanks for your reply, StrongerNow, this is how I feel. Hashi, I was thinking the same thing right from the beginning, but I was very very insecure and unsure and confused about everything, so I thought "who am I to know?" Right in our first session I remember telling her about my difficulties...
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    My T Says It Has To Do With My Mother

    Yes, exactly. I didn´t have appointments at 3 ;). No, this only started about 2 and a half years ago. I´ve had an eating disorder for about a year or so before that. It started 2 and half year ago, got better, but somehow it has gotten a lot worse suddenly at the beginning of December 2013. I...
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    My T Says It Has To Do With My Mother

    arfie, I think you´re right, too. I keep forgetting that. I´ve noticed at times when I´m more relaxed things seem less stressful or difficult for me and in times of big stress, more things that were managable a week ago, become difficult. Good point.
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    My T Says It Has To Do With My Mother

    thank you for your answers! Well, you´re right. I do have issues with my mother. More than one actually. My mother´s an alcoholic. I think when I was younger, she didn´t want me to grow older and always treated me like I was a lot younger than I really was. I sensed that and acted that way as...
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    My T Says It Has To Do With My Mother

    My T said my not feeling autonomous and being scared of obligations (in terms of appointments), because I feel like I belong to the person I have an appointment with, has to do with an issue I´ve had with my mother before I was 3 years old. It might be true, I have little memory of before I was...
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