Recent content by TraumaticHealing

Thank you all for your thoughts. I just had today the finalizing discussion (the last talk) and now we where able to discuss these things. In the past few weeks I made clear I didn't like how she 'counselled' me. From the beginning the trauma surfaced using tre (which I didn't knew was a...

Hi, my therapist (which I fired) says that self-therapy like self-emdr and trauma release excercise can only go wrong and can result in anxiety or depression. She warned me so many times that eventually her prophecy came out: I got scared of something (memory or made up stuff) and was...

Jeez... i have no words, the grief you must have had. My body remembers the events and tell me when I am ready, how did you find out? I tell my trauma in a very abstract way, what I felt, the conclusions I drew about the world and myself, the impact in life. If I tell them the horrors, they...

I am very sweaty of the stress, I tried synthetic thermo underwear, marino wool underwear which are supposed to transport the water away from the skin and keeping the skin dry. But it doesn't work. Everything gets wet really quickly. The only place I feel warm is under the shower / in bath or...

Thanks. I am afraid my story is so bizarre, I think people, even my therapist(s), won't believe me.

But they couldn't kill a 4,5 years old. I am bloody serious. They tried to suffocate me using different methods. Due to my body violently shaking they couldn't do it. Then one said he would do it alone. He tried to break my neck. But he didn't use enough power. I had a dusty jute sack over...

Thanks, that sounds like it is the case in my life, a lot of (extreme) situations can be explained by this. It makes sense.

Everything I find interesting triggers a lot of the unsafe feelings that I am way too used too. Very direct triggers of trauma I tend to avoid, but secondary triggers (like that make me feel unsafe and awake) I tend to search for it seems. Any recognition? Any tips to deal with it?

Yes, that's me, somehow I wasn't logged in and was wondering, what is this name field for? Thank you, @EveHarrington - that is a very clear answer.

I think we are in the same boat. My girlfriend and I trigger each others trauma's. These are the only moments we have a fight. She fights for people that see her, she feels her only job is to make space for me and to help me healing. So she puts herself aside until she cannot handle it anymore...

Hi, in short, my situation: chronic fatigue syndrome for 5 years, living with a partner of whom I think is the best match I can think of. But after 5 years of chronic fatigue, my heavy trauma surfaced, now I have ptsd. My girlfriend said she couldn't handle it anymore. I went away for two...