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My goals for today are to stick to healthy foods and organise my to do list. And maybe start on painting the kitchen.

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Hi Jane, I could have written much of this. Especially the blackouts - I'm hearing you! I have been prescribed mild sleep meds and they do stop the dreams and the decent sleep does help with coping. And when I cope better I am less likely to reach for the bottle. I am also absolutely not going...

Exactly, it's a hard line to walk. Oh I hope so! Thank you for that, he's really unemotional though so I think 'really pleased' isn't going to be it, but some sort of acknowledgement that it was helpful for him, or will be helpful for us, would be good. We'll see, I'm going to be in knots by...

Additionally, people who don't understand PTSD often do think we should 'get over things'. This is the clinical issue, PTSD is what happens when you can't get over things. It is a medically recognised condition. They may not understand this, but you can. Be gentle with yourself.

Good for you Shannon. My significant other has no idea and would never get it either. But..(just like arfie said), he is my partner not my therapist so I'm clear in my own mind on that. Your first priority should be to find some help that will allow you work through your trauma and be in a...

Jane thank you! Oh man, I should've taken your advice. Well I tried to but a few things happened on my way to T that triggered a flashback and I was still a bit dissociated when I arrived. I did tell him this. I was concentrating on giving him the paper and was unprepared for his usual...

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This is a truth I know. Thank you for telling me again. Sometimes I'm not sure that the EMDR process has helped me with the ability to share. I don't have to tell it, I have to think it. But if I think it and then avoid it, only I can hold myself accountable. And I'm not always so great at...

Thank you for your responses. Maddog, that is good advice. I'm trying to rehearse in my mind how I introduce this, but thinking about it is stressing me. Can't believe it's Monday already..

So this Tuesday I suspect is going to be the biggest of the big. I do EMDR. We are time limited, I have 20 sessions budgeted on the NHS (UK) and we are up to number 14 this week. My therapist is fantastic. Over the last few months I have come to trust him with things I never ever thought I...

My goal for tomorrow is to not get too worried about T on Tuesday. Also have invited another family for dinner (8 total) so to be planned and organised and not too self critical....it will be fine.

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