Bamboo

Nodding vigorously ☹️ For years i just thought I was broken in some way. I would hear other people talk about sex and thought that...

The Last Of Us I’ve bawled. Twice. And have bought HBO (streaming) PURELY for this stupid, once a week, show. It’s good.

The Last Kingdom tv show. House Of Cards tv show.

I liken it to a beaver dam. It's been a long time since the original injury and all this "stuff" has been added and piled up and...

Yes, chiropractor was the only thing that ever brought relief, though only for a week or so as you said. I rarely go though I should...

Hmmmmmmm.........sounds like EXACTLY what I had. Yes dealing with the trauma behind it is scary, and hard, and has a lot to it but the...

Ted Lasso Absolutely outstanding series.

Forever Therapy = A basic human need, IMO. For good counsel. For some that counsel is made up of by friends/family. For others it’s by...

I dont ever feel like i come out of of that state. I sometimes try to force my shoulders to angle down, especially when I'm trying to...

I continue to sometimes struggle with the level of empathy my therapist offers me. But one thing it's given me the space to notice: if...

About a year ago, shortly after I first mentioned to my T "the thing" that happened to me (still calling it "the thing" because I still...

Memory is really hard. yes, I had a ‘knowing’. i repressed and blocked out memories for a long time. Was 24 when some came back and...

I have no idea what you mean by this. Like Friday, I disagree with not just one word, but every word of what you wrote.

No. I took issue with the entirety of what you wrote below. Both your premise, and your conclusions you based on that premise. Which you...

Completely untrue. Traumatic amnesia means that it’s completely normal, even common, for adults to be unsure of what happened to them...

Hard disagree.

This ☝️ While I have yet to really open up and face the memories of what feel is the most painful / terrifying part of my thing, there...

long story short --- It helps you reframe how you think of things. It doesn't erase the memory, it changes how you feel about the...

Reality is - we are so busy deluding ourselves and trying to suppress the memories that we don't just do it unconsciously, we do it...

I do the same.

Yep. It's pretty shit. Recovery is damn hard work. But that's the rub. That's what gets me into the therapy chair, still, more...

My two sources of peer support (here && one on Discord) have been absolutely invaluable to me in feeling like a real life human person...

@Bamboo What kind and truthful words you speak! Knowing that I have a place to come where I am accepted, understood, not judged, and...

something i find even more awesome than the support here is that the peer support network --of which this site is but a single node-- is...

Absolutely

A couple years ago I would have been screwed on a day like today but today it's like what the heck, its just another day living with...

What Bamboo said.

I would like to say that support for others that I see on this site is incredible. I don't post a lot, but I read a lot of them and it...

Thank you so much Paula I will admit that there are things that are better, or at least better than they were. I too am kind of "in...

It will come to a distant memory . keep being WILLING to do the work. The day after there is nothing I can do literally. I am in the...