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ever since i started doing trauma work in therapy i have been panicked almost constantly, always in flight response. i had constant anxiety and dread before this, both of which caused me many problems, but it's not even close to that anymore. now it's intense and relentless dread that i can't...

this is so helpful, thanks. i know i need to just wait. and maybe my therapist won't bring anything out. i think i'm just tired of this person constantly showing up in my brain uninvited so many years later, and then having these same two memories with him replay in my head without being able to...

you're very right, i need to stop thinking about all this right now. i'm an obsessive thinker and it is an issue for me. it's probably the thing i should ask the substitute therapist to help me with because i haven't figured out how to stop fixating and compartmentalize. i try to do the...

thanks, i hope he can help. i am just concerned this memory won't come up ever, and so i will never properly process what happened that night. i've tried different ways to force it out without luck. i think at the time i brushed it off, felt strange but weirdly 'special' to have been targeted by...

have you recovered blocked memories from a traumatic event? please note that i am asking about a fragmented event that i have always remembered in parts, not a totally repressed memory i don’t know exists, as the situations are a little different. i have an incomplete memory of a sexually...

this is very helpful perspective. you are right that it's really about individual needs. i know that my distress at the moment is not a reflection on him, and realistically i would never scold him like this for his professional decisions. i am not super attached to him but i do have some...

yes I am not going to actually express anger at him, even though i am upset. but not really upset at him, more so just upset by the circumstances, that i have to deal with this and can't just take a break from my life. i do understand and i didn't come to him thinking we were going to work on...

thanks. i'm really lost and struggling out here alone with this. i keep deciding it's not that bad and that i need to get over it, all of it, but of course i can't just get over any of it, which makes me feel weak and pathetic. meanwhile i have to have a job and pretend everything is fine. i...

my therapist is gone for 5 weeks and we had only recently begun working on trauma. therapy triggered me early in the summer and for months i was panicking literally all the time and barely functioning and only recently have pulled myself together so i don't lose my job. doing this has meant...