Recent content by kers

I got a lot done with cleaning my house. I am trying to keep a neater living space for my physical/mental health.

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I am bumping this thread because it was interesting to me. Someone on my treatment team recently suggested to me that one (or both) of my parents might have been dissociating during my youth. I am having lots of mixed feelings about it, since I now have tremendous problems with dissociation...

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I'm having weird nightmares of people breaching the boundaries, the perimeter, of my house. I don't like them.

I dread setting my clocks back. More time in the dark means more time afraid for me.

I was very glad to see that he was sent to a maximum security prison and will be kept in isolation for the rest of his life. I suppose he assumed he'd never be caught--that no one would believe those kids--and that even if he were caught, that he could handle prison. I'm glad it will be hard on...

Hashi, I very much agree with what you wrote. When I started treatment, my doctor told me that one thing that was a powerful predictor of post-traumatic difficulties was whether or not there were people available after the trauma to respond with compassion and support.

I had a short time in my life when I would tell people what happened to me and that I had PTSD, but they generally never "got it" and didn't understand why I was still having the troubles I am, which left me very angry and feeling misunderstood. After working with my therapist and having the...

I have found that art helps me manage and express some emotions that I can't yet communicate in words--especially anger. I don't worry about making a work of art, just using artistic materials to express the feelings. I'm sure that I've painted dozens of virtually identical pages of black...

I had reactions for several weeks while coming off it. I titrated down pretty slowly, though, because of the reactions--100, 75, 50...by the end I was taking pieces of pills! I hope you are feeling better soon.

I'm glad you were able to talk with him and discuss this!

Grounding strategies. When I dissociate, I feel kind of like a balloon that's floating away, and grounding pulls me back to earth. There are lots of different strategies (Google them!) but what works for me is tuning into my senses, each in turn. I usually don't have much for smell/taste but I...

I do this. Luckily, not often in front of other people, because that is the height of humiliation. Mostly it's when I'm alone or with my therapist, and I am pretty okay with freaking out in those situations.

I won't do any social media. Partly because I know I'd be jealous of what a lot of my acquaintances present as their lives, and partly because I'm afraid of my real life and my online life crossing paths.