Recent content by kirsten

Maybe this response is constructive. Think about how you would feel if you were laughing it up. There'd be a lot of anger, right? It wouldn't simply be a vengeful attitude. It'd be a healthy and appropriate response, because anger is appropriate. It's not as though you've gone out and killed the...

Thank you all so much for putting so much thought and thoughtfulness into your responses. You are all unbelievably insightful. It makes me realise how little work I've put into educating myself about PTSD. I've just let it happen and tried to get through it without getting the empowerment (read...

Hi all. I'm just going to launch in because I'm completely freaked out right now. In 2001 a man I was interviewing for a feature broke into my place and tried to kill me. He was very drunk and didn't have a weapon, and I think that, along with a few other factors, are what saved my life. I...

I wouldn't go that far. I have spent six years in therapy going over and over what happened, so some processing must have taken place. During the last four years, my therapist noticed that I relapsed entirely when we discussed what happened so we stopped with that and I haven't gone back to it...

I know how you feel. I live in South Africa and we recently had a terrible rape/murder case that has everyone banding together in some misguided attempt to support trauma survivors. What they've actually achieved is the alienation of trauma survivors--everywhere you go there are billboards...

Wow. I was stunned to have received so many responses. I thought they'd come through to my inbox, so I discovered them quite late. My therapist certainly couldn't do more than speculate about my attacker's reason for doing so. She did make the fact that she was speculating quite clear. She...

Hi. I feel rather odd having found this group because I have never considered that there may be people out there who have gone through what I have. About ten years ago I survived an attempted murder. After the man was caught, the police told me that he had recently murdered a 17 year old girl on...