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I just wanted to share that I found an app for CBT for my phone, and it's amazing. It helps me remember medication, does breathing exercises, checks in randomly throughout the day to see how I am....um there's thought re-framing, all kinds of things. I'm really finding it helpful. I won't say...

Dissociative Experiences Scale Your Score: 1310 / 2800 46.8 is my score and they say that people with DID typically score in the 40s. My therapist told me today that I have Severe PTSD with Dissociative Amnesia but not DID. Hmmmm.....

I had this experience earlier this week. I started having a completely immersive flashback. I know where I was but I couldn't see what was going on, I had intense pain and then the room went black and I was then sitting in the bathroom 5 hours later in my therapist's office. This same thing...

I was taking seroquel for several months, and it was causing tachycardia, so we reduced my dose. The tachycardia didn't stop, and last night my heart rate reached 170, which is 10 less than when it becomes dangerous. It is just inappropriate sinus tachycardia, so it's nothing to be concerned...

Hello, I've been doing DBT for a while, also working on other ways to ground myself and feel safe. My only issue is that when I'm with my therapist I understand everything she's saying to me, but when it comes to being triggered outside of therapy, I forget everything she said. Anyone else...

I have what was, up until recently, called DD-NOS. I have shared this information here before, but am still looking to see if there is anyone with a similar experience. I dissociate. I lose time. It happens frequently. My aunt (whom I live with) and my therapist have both witnessed it. My...

Does anyone have any experience with Hakomi? My therapist does it, and we're not to that point yet, but I'm curious to know if it is similar to somatic experiencing, or if it is helpful for complex trauma, developmental trauma, and severe PTSD. Thanks!

I really think DBT is awesome. I've recently been introduced to the concept of Radical Acceptance. It's pretty powerful. Yes, I feel terrified. It's not good, but it's what happens when you're a kid and you're abused. I'm not being abused now, but being terrified is natural. It won't kill...

My new therapist started doing DBT with me to help me learn to control my emotions and intrusive thoughts. I went through a month's worth of feeling terror and having traumatic flashbacks. I had to check into a hotel and just take time to let out all of the terror. It did help, and kept me from...

I am so terrified of therapy and all that I have to go through to get to the other side of this complex trauma crap. I'm sick to my stomach thinking about everything I have to learn and everything that has to change. I don't know if I'm up to the challenge and feel like I'm stuck on a roller...

I had looping flashbacks, the kind where you believe it's all happening again, all of my mind and body was overtaken, over and over from about 2:30 PM until Midnight. The ambulance got me around 8 PM. The hospital first put me in this suicide proof room, which was annoying, then they had to move...

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this post, but I couldn't find anywhere else to put it. My 13 year old son has been having problems with a kid at school who is 15. This kid has been calling him names, telling him he's shaped like an egg and calling him egg, punching him in the...

I've been worried about posting here, lately. I'm worried that no one here likes me, or that I'm too dramatic for people. I'm also worried that I have been annoying my new therapist, and that she's going to dislike me, as well. I suppose this has been a theme in my life. I have no friends...

So, I have this thing where I don't feel like my body is mine, but recently, I've noticed, that not only do I not think my body is mine, but I ignore all of it's cues. I don't go to the bathroom when I have to, and when I do it takes me a couple of minutes to connect enough to be able to go. I...

Link Removed Does this mean that when I believe I'm five again and I have all the memories of my past, yet know my name, is partial DID? I thought this was a kind of flashback.

I've discovered that listen to music that I like really helps me change my mood or keeps me from having fear or intrusive thoughts. It's really helpful. My therapist put earphones on me during our last session, and played relaxing music while I did therapy, it's part of brainspotting. Anyway...

My new therapist helped me out today with brainspotting. It is pretty amazing or the placebo effect is amazing, either way, I don't feel terrified as much as I did this morning, which is super awesome, because now I am not being triggered into flashbacks. Phew! We also discovered that I have...

I'm suicidal. My psychiatrist is weaning me off of klonopin, and for days I have felt terrified. It's triggering me and I can't control the flashbacks. I tried contacting both my psychiatrist and therapist but neither of them are answering me. It could be because it's only 7:30, but i feel so...

Has anyone had any success or experience with brainspotting?

I'm getting triggered by thinking about talking about my past with my new therapist. It's so scary to share the story with people after I was taught to fear other people knowing. Now, I have to share all these details again, with someone new, and think about trusting another person. Trust is...

So seroquel is deffinately causing me tachycardia and orthostatic hypotension. Now we have to go down on it and I'm so nervous because it's the first thing that's helped lessen the intensity of flashbacks and helped me sleep. Anyone know of a med that can replace it that helps with flashbacks...

So I have these body memories that are super intense, and today they've been throwing me into flashbacks. I haven't been to the school at all, and my aunt is getting my son from school at 5 so that I can calm down. It's been non-stop all day long. I feel like my body is little again, and that...

My new therapist is really nice. We talked about getting my abuser (my father) out of my life for at least the next two months. She doesn't think I will make progress if I'm still in the abuse (which is a new concept for me, I thought the abuse stopped at 17). I am afraid to tell my parents...

I am having body memories, and I can't get them to stop using healthy modes, so without being able to contact my therapist I've resorted to living in my imagination for today. I seem spaced out to others, but really I'm imagining anything other than what I'm feeling. Anyone else been there?

I found out this weekend that I joined here first in 2008, and then came back in 2015 or 2016...I have no memory of any of this. So strange. Anyone else have memory issues like me?