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I think for me it was that the anger was so powerful and it really was the power that kept me alive. It was what kept me pushing back up from the bottom, it was what kept me from totally surrendering to the powerlessness that I felt towards everything that I couldn't change as a child. I have...

For me the memories were never out of reach. They were always present and with me driving my intense sensitivity and fear of everyone and the world in general. Never trusting people that some how they weren't going to hurt me because that is what people that were the closest to me did. The...

A technique that has worked for me is that when I feel that I am moving away from the present moment into the past and start telling myself, oh no, here we go again in regards to what is in front of me that I am determining I should be afraid of. Is #1 breathe! Take a couple of really deep...

I know this was one of my fears too. We don't know who we are because we have lived in such a shut down state. I know for years I let everyone else determine what I thought of myself. I finally realized that I was making everyone else my God. If someone didn't like me, then I didn't like myself...

I was 14 when I was raped and I am 56 now. I too have lived most of my life not understanding that I was dealing with PTSD. And made my life a total mess. I lived my life either dissasociated, numb or angry and reactive. The anger was the safest and only emotion that I would really let myself...

It took me years to find the right therapist that I felt safe enough with to go after the emotions that were held so tightly bound by past trauma and fear about everything I was telling myself about me because of that trauma. I think for many of us it is the fear of rejection and abandonment...