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I'm just venting, so bare with me here. My trauma stems from the death of my baby daughter during a very early labour, the poor medical treatment at that time and also many years of ttc prior to all this, nearly 9yrs ago now Today, myself, sisters and a friend were doing a little surprise...

.......when you're "doing really well" post therapy ending, and suddenly 1 single piece of news causes the mother of all panic attacks, catastrophsizing, hyperventilating, tears galore......you get the gist. All happening at 3.44am, and because of this piece of news you need to go look after...

So in the UK its mother's day, and as all of my babies died before/during birth, it's pretty painful. My partner is currently working away, and bless his heart, he'd arranged flowers and card delivery to me. So so beautiful, and I'm so thankful he is so willing and able to share his grief and...

A friend who has been through a similar type of trauma as myself has been doing EMDR for a little while now with T suggesting it may be time to finish in a fee weeks, but she's not finding it particularly useful In this situation, when the patient is adamant a particular place/room is too...

So as some of you may have seen, I recently explained some of the reasons for my trauma. I'm still working on the whole not comparing your trauma to anyone else's, but hey, it's a start just posting it here! Well, last week in the UK was baby loss awareness week (I volunteer for and run our...

OK, so this is scaring the hell out of me even just writing this, but I'm hoping writing it down will help with 1, my own fear of judgement and 2, be at least part of processing the trauma. I've tried to write this here a million times and keep deleting it. I'll apologise now because this is...

So last week's session was TOUGH! Don't get me wrong, T is lovely and ensured I was calm and ok before leaving, but Jesus was it a rough one. I know I'm new to this ptsd lark, but it's really shaken me how the session affected my thoughts and reactions since starting therapy, and now I'm...

Super new to this, so bare with. Where I am an official diagnosis will take years and costs tons. Instead, you're assessed by a psychiatric therapist and your "ptsd symptoms" treated accordingly. Had to wait a long time for the therapist, but when I evenly saw her a few weeks ago I scored very...