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    Is it useful at all to dwell on why it happened? It's affecting romantic relationships.

    People keep suggesting I get a T here lmao its always the first thing people assume, that I dont have a T lol but Ive been seeing a T for 3 years now 😅
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    Is it useful at all to dwell on why it happened? It's affecting romantic relationships.

    I keep running into this problem with relationships where I feel like the only thing that they are after is my body or my appearance. Even when they are interested in my other qualities, it always seems as if it's because these qualities are useful to them. Nobody seems to figure out that my...
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    How to mend?

    I find myself struggling to fix my relationship with my parents and brother even though it's difficult and I may be better off following the advice of many on here and focusing on a "found family." I don't think the found family advice is very helpful to me as I have trouble forming...
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    Childhood How long did your "crisis" state last, once you started having flashbacks and nightmares of the CSA?

    I'm not angry at you at all!!! You didn't make me angry and I'm not just putting up with you. It's not your fault.
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    Avoiding talking to my family

    I talked to her about it. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would go. I do a lot of catastrophizing tbh
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    Avoiding talking to my family

    Thank you. It really did help. My mom did it again, this morning, because my window was open and I was wearing shorts so what if someone came in and why wasn't I being careful. At least it wasn't about my dad. I asked her to just let me LIVE. She said I should be watching out for these things...
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    Childhood How long did your "crisis" state last, once you started having flashbacks and nightmares of the CSA?

    It's only frustrating because your abuser has taken away something that might help you. I'm so angry that he did that to you and that it has left you without many options for feeling safe calming down. It shouldn't have happened. I hope Ronin's advice about positions help! In terms of trauma...
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    Childhood How long did your "crisis" state last, once you started having flashbacks and nightmares of the CSA?

    Yeah, no, thats completely fair. It was bad advice at the start. If you mean that the sensations would get connected and mean you can't watch them again, one of the main reasons I suggested a romance novel is because they're all similar enough to be expendable but often have enough differences...
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    Childhood How long did your "crisis" state last, once you started having flashbacks and nightmares of the CSA?

    I'm here. Not sure for how much longer, but if you need to rant, I'm listening. This is a very personal and possibly not-good-for-you way that I deal with these feelings, but I often feel like I'm in more control of my body when I spend some alone time giving it happy sexual memories, if you...
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    No therapy - Received phone call to say all therapy support has been withdrawn until further notice

    I've been doing phone therapy, and have similar issues as a lot of people in terms of "not having things to talk about" currently because there's nothing I've been doing. But my T told me that it's often those sessions where there's nothing to talk about where a real breakthrough happens b/c...
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    Avoiding talking to my family

    I think it's also difficult not to minimize what happened to me because that's what I've had to do my entire life. I know it was objectively horrible and bad and every kind of f*cked up, but on a subconscious level I still think it's my fault or that I'm making myself feel bad. It's been implied...
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    My therapist (MD) won't tell me a diagnosis

    He was trained as a psychoanalyst (plus other things that I have forgotten and am unsure about asking him about because he definitely told me about himself hence me knowing about his being trained to do psychoanalysis lmao) but he also went through medical school. Our relationship is kind of...
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    My therapist (MD) won't tell me a diagnosis

    I also am unsure how to edit the title of the so that it's clearer. Maybe I should just delete the thread.
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    My therapist (MD) won't tell me a diagnosis

    Yeah, I think part of my confusion is that I spent a bit of time in the UK where definitions are more distinct. So it was easier to call him a therapist because that's mainly what we do. Hope I can get some more concrete insight. He has an MD, prescribes medication for me and also does talk...
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    How much responsibility am I supposed to be taking?

    I disagree with framing it as "playing the victim". You are not playing anything. This is just a response that was developed by being abused. You have taken the responsibility of reaching out to an extreme such that you have come to believe that everything that fails is your fault. This is not...
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