Recent content by katiekat

Thank you both @deer_in_headlights and @FridayJones. Your replies are comforting!

I work for a large comic book company-have been with the company for over 5 years. During the first 6 months of my job I discovered that I had Attention Deficit Disorder. I was intensely harassed and bullied by my manager for about the first three years of my job, and I sought therapy a little...

I agree with @Jane.l Thats exactly what I did. The day after my last therapist triggered me, I went into research mode and contacted 5 potential therapists.Make a list of qualifications for the therapist and be really clear and upfront when you go to meet them. Treat it like you're interviewing...

I oringally went into therapy for help with career issues, and about four months into therapy, my therapist diagnosed me with PTSD. He told me he wasn't a trauma therapist and suggested I find someone who was more experienced in that area, but he made it my choice to find a new therapist. I...

I agree with @shandemonium!

I just switched therapists because of this exact reason. My first T always approached me with compassion and understanding and I liked that style. But I was unable to open up to him about certain subjects and so I switched to an older female T. She was easier to talk to about some things, but...

@desiderata310 good suggestion. I'm not comfortable putting a label on my experience. I was more asking if I should explain what I'm experiencing to the therapist and if it matters.

This tends to only happen in therapy, and usually only when my trauma is talked about in a general sense. I don't get the racing heart panic attacks when this happens-its more of a calm spaced-out reaction with visual distortions and I feel sort of floaty.

I just switched therapists-this is my third one in 2 years. I was with my first one for a year, he is the one who diagnosed me with PTSD, and during a session where I believe he came to the diagnosis, I believe I dissociated, but I am not sure if that is the correct terminology for what...

Wow. @sun seeker I think you wrote this for me. We have an almost identical situation. I don't have time to write a good response (partly because I'm just as clueless as you are) but I wanted to say that I totally understand what you are going through and have been searching for the last three...

I don't perceive myself as misinterpreting the volume, tone, intensity and anger in the delivery of my therapist's message to me. I can easily compare how she spoke to me to the way my mom would "fly off the handle" if I did something bad aa a kid. No one else has ever spoken to me like that...

I've been at my job for 5 years. There are various reasons I need a new job, and I have a lot of work to do in terms of communication and work relationships. I'm hearing a lot of you say similar things about what message she was trying to get across, and I'm not blind or in objection to that at...

The things that I was talking about were things she doesn't totally understand (my profession) and I was trying to explain to her that I have xyz concerns about my career (been fired from 6 jobs since college, been told by employers that I don't have what it takes to do this kind of job) and I'm...

On one hand I understand the message she was trying to get across. But she gave me no tools to move forward other than telling me to stop. If this negative talk is stemming from early childhood, I can't imagine it's much different than trying to kick a drug habit. I've never had rehab so I'm...

Her tone of voice was harsh and I could sense that she was getting angry. I have a hard time trusting people and have a tendency to question if a therapist is trying to trick me or do reverse psychology and I have contemplated that maybe she did this for a reason unknown to me, but was...