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Does it help to consider therapy like school? People excel at different things. The most amaaaaazing kindergarten teacher might be a...

This. The trick is that your SUDS level never gets to the point of being triggered. Ever. So it's very much a frog boiling in water. It...

I hate CBT. But I’m not sure if I’ve been through Cognitive Behavior Therapy or Christian Bullshit Therapy.

Thank you Movingforward10, I really appreciate your response and it's not lost on me that everyone here has their own things to deal...

It’s very often not laziness so much as specialisation. CBT is really helpful for a range of very common mental health issues...

Lazy therapists are those that use only one model of treatment for all patients. That “one size fits all” rigid thinking is not...

We are experts at that............ When I learned about the changes PTSD makes in your brain I learned two important facts.... 1. PTSD...

OP - it's tempting to lock the thread, since you've basically admitted that you started trolling your own post. But I'll leave it open...

Attacking Sideways because they happen to be a moderator only adds to your delusional status in the eyes of many readers. A person who...

It’s a shame you aren’t in the next room, so that you could see how wrong all of your assumptions are about both me and my motivations...

I second what @OliveJewel said. That thought is a voice of someone. And my T would try and work out whose voice it is. (long time I kept...

CBT did not work for me either. My previous T tried to fit me into her CBT box and it was awful for me. My T does ACT and it makes so...

Screwdrivers make lousy hammers.

It sounds like you have grandiose thinking. Yes, I complain about stupid people all the time, and while I know I’m intelligent, I...

It doesn’t. The mantra on this forum is take what’s helpful, leave the rest. Feel free to ignore all my advice. That’s totally okay...

It sounds as if you already made your mind up before you even came on here and asked for an opinion. There are people here who are...

"Sometimes you gotta get angry and set ultimatums with people to get things going" No. No, you really don't EVER have to set...

WTF is this shit about weekend hours don't count? (My state is not like that.) I am SO sorry this happened to you. It's the biggest...

What @Sideways said. They cannot give out your info. At all. (Unless you sign a release.) Why would your T invest so much time trying...

So, the treatment centre you attended can’t give out your name. To anyone. Certainly not some random person calling them up out of the...

Have you talked to your T to find out why she didn’t show up? I don’t see how she could have figured out who your old T was unless you...

I sent my therapist an email after the thing she said yesterday about how it was unusual for a woman to have gone through so much...

i'm all too often wrong when i guess at what other people are thinking. my mind reading skills genuinely suck. when i invite other folks...

Is this still the T you are unsure about? I’m honestly not sure how I would take that (I am super sensitive!), but I would definitely...

Keep in mind that the definition of trafficking is a lot broader than most people think. It does not require movement of persons to...

Nope. Adults with no history of childhood trauma can get cPTSD, as well. Even the very earliest proposals of cPTSD by Judith Herman...

I would say that either you misunderstood what your therapist said, or your therapist is an idiot. I have complex trauma in spades...

Meh. They're just thoughts. Thoughts are harmless. I'm sure they don't don't feel good but they're only thoughts. You could work on...

How about working on letting go of the guilt? You didn’t force your T to stay with you. She made the decision to give you extra time...

No I don't think we are in the dark ages at all. You're posting in a forum where people have commonly been raped, exploited, tortured...

Was either the crotch or the arse naked? Seriously, no it's not ok that you were touched in a way you didn't want to be. Intention on...

I can't say I necessarily have severe symptoms but I surely don't have them all. To say you have all of them based on one minor incident...

I'm going to be honest here, I was totally looking at this objectively and was very open to the possibility of a trauma from what I...

This. In a previous thread, you described your sexual assault as ‘a teacher pressed his penis against your bum through a hole in the...

Okay. I read more into your post. He likely is not addressing the idea of sexual assault and PTSD, because from their assessments they...

I have to say that anyone that spent that much time making me doubt myself and trying to slap labels on me - especially one like...

Ah. Ok. Makes sense. But here’s the thing: you hired her to do a job for you. She’s there to be with you in the journey, to guide...

Sorry, so if you’re invited to watch a family friend in a play or attend a party or community picnic and you’re aware your T has had the...

I have a few different items depending upon where I am going to be and what it going on. I have an oval acrylic 4 leaf clover (hasn't...

Your therapist is there for you, in session, to listen, ask questions, support you any way she can. Outside of that it’s not her job to...

Therapists who have boundaries and have a life outside of work tend to be the most trustworthy. Most therapists don’t do extensive...

Truth. Your therapist cares. Truth. Your therapist can only be relied on up to a certain point. (She can’t do anything/everything...

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...

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...

All of this may be beside the point… as it’s already been discussed it’s not the school of thought, but the person themselves, who is...

@Lostvoice . I’m in the Uk too. Does she work by the code of BACP? Because she has broken them, from day one with you. She should never...

This is why it’s not working. Not because it’s a humanist, person-centred approach.

What part of your wearing on me is humanistic? Person centered? Centered on how she the therapist feels? Sorry I’d hit the eject...

Yeah, I have been in the same position. Do you have other (non-professional) support--family? friends? Ok, so this is where you really...

I would dump her ass. I want someone who I know is always on my side, not an antagonist. The fact that she is allowing dual roles means...