Recent content by estelle beninson

I am still trying to cope wit dissociaton after about forty years after the event. I have had some good therapy but some therapists, no matter how good on other things, dont have experience of PTSD. Some even rubbish the idea that you have it. Interesting dissociation - I used to space out...

I have had ptsd for forty years, and still dissociate. The first thing you have to do is release your mind from the trauma. You dissociate because your mental energies are still tied up in the event and also, you dont want to experience more pain. It helped me to go over and over the events...

Your therapist was not OK to terminate with you without preparation. Really, you could complain to their professional body if you can stand the aggravation of doing it. Or else just console yourself with the fact that you have got rid of a bad therapist. You should have had several weeks of...

I have been diagnosed with complex ptsd and havent been cured and the events happened forty years ago. Id say you have to be able to discuss what happened to traumatise you with a therapist who firstly accepts you have ptsd, and these therapists are sometimes not easy to find. 2. be able to go...

Its possible to get too attached to a therapist and really it can be dangerous. Maybe discuss your attachment with your therapist, but be careful,

I dissociate but its not DID. I still am only one person. However, I just space out a lot of the time. Before this happened my attention span was more continous. Now I am in a series of away states. For a few years after the event, I would sit down to eat a meal, and then come round, and...

Only half of my reply was posted. You probably do have PTSD. However, psys are reluctant to diagnose it. I suspect this is because a diagnosis of ptsd means you are blaming events for a persons mental condition an d they want to blame the person e.g. you have these symptoms because you have...

You probably do have PTSD, from what you say, but dont be surprised if any psy you see disagrees with you. Psys seem reluctant to diagnose PTSD. I have been diagnosed with complex ptsd but I still found a psy who said there was nothing wrong with me and I should take up voluntary work! I...

My therapist terminated with no explanation and I still, years later, suffer from complex ptsd. Its not ok for you to be treated like this and even if he was ill, his colleagues should have given you extra help and put some immediate provision in place to see you through. Go back and tell them...

I think the word "negligence" is appropriate. I should investigate the situation with one of the professional bodies. However, I know this happens. I also know they all know it shouldnt happen.

I was emotionally traumatised by a bogus psycotherapist. It was a bit like a cult situation. I believed whatever he told me and it was really damaging. I was traumatised again by the treatment I got from two solicitors. Have you tried to explain the most important things happening to you...