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Dear fellow trauma survivors, I recently started EMDR therapy for childhood trauma(s). Today I had my second session and I am finding that the sessions themselves are very exhausting. I do believe they are helpful. I was in talk therapy for a little over 2 years and had started to get...

Hello all, It has been a while since I posted anything on this forum. I realize now it was almost a year ago I posted about a similar issue. My sexual attraction to my therapist has not gone away :/. It seems to come in bursts and sputters and I seemed to be doing much better for a time. It...

Severe MDD crept back in over the past month or so and I have been fighting off very strong SI for several days. I met with my Psychiatrist on Friday who increased my meds and told me to go to therapy more (I go once a week for 50 minutes right now). I was devastated that his suggestion was...

I am so incredibly attached to my T. Some might argue it is his fault. He didn't set good boundaries and maybe that is true but it doesn't change the reality of the fact that...I have realized I am so completely attached to my T and don't know how to function without him in my life. So...now...

hello all, Things have been going so well in my recovery from severe MDD. I have been lucky to have a wonderful supportive husband and friends and a kind and compassionate therapist. In the past month I have begun to have very strong sexual feelings for my therapist. At first it was refreshing...

Help. I can't stop thinking about my T. I think about him very frequently. Not romantically...yet...I hope it doesn't go there... I find it distracting. I text him all of the time. It never seems to be enough for me. I just want to talk to him all of the time about everything. I want to ask him...

Dear all, I have been doing so well with my recovery from depression, an 8 day hospital stay due to SI plans etc. My meds have been working well. I see a therapist once a week. Things have been gradually improving and I have been feeling so much better over the past 2 1/2 months. Then the...

My therapist had to have triple by-pass surgery and has been on leave and will be on leave until (?). At first I was very much ok with it. I was very proud of myself. I have made much progress in the past two months. The last few days though have been incredibly difficult. Clearly there is...

Life changing conversation with my sister. We have been living with the same illness in its very individualized manifestations for over two decades. I love her. I am so grateful to know I am not alone. Our childhood memories resonate. She suffers the same and yet even more traumatic injuries...

I lost my job this past week. I was hospitalized about 5 weeks ago due to SI. I have since lost my job. I have no job. I had told my supervisor I was struggling with a new diagnosis of severe MDD and PTSD. I thought he understood. I knew any day I was going to find an antidepressant that would...

Thinking today. Found out yesterday...that the job I have been trying to hold on to for the past 2 months...forsaking all other responsibilities to try and make sure I can at least do that...is no longer an option. 6 months and I have to be gone. What the hell is the point anymore.

Dear all, This is my 4th day on 5mg of Prozac and I am so incredibly dizzy and lightheaded. Is this a side effect any of you have experienced? Typically how long does it take to go away? It is so bad right now I am having trouble keeping my balance. This is my second try at a medicine and I...

So...there is something that has been on my mind that I really think I need to talk with my T about but have been holding back. I am realizing through my processing etc. that is has had a significant impact on many areas of my life in the past 6 years. I thought I would try it out here. In 2011...

Just saw my second Psychiatrist earlier this week. The first one didn't work out. My therapist not being a Psychiatrist. Psychiatrist prescribed me a new medicine. We had a lengthy discussion...he was a jerk...but that is another thread and I had resolved some of that with myself (and the help...

Has anyone else ever had the experience that their doctor or therapist put you in a position that made you feel they were basically like..."so you're here...now convince me you need to be here." That is how I felt yesterday with my new Psychiatrist...and it really screwed up the rest of my day...

Today I asked me therapist how much he weighs. He replied...and with much confusion...until I revealed to him...that his weight was now my new goal for my deadlift. I have been exercising lifting weights etc. pretty regularly for almost a year now. The exercise regime has been an invaluable part...

About 5 weeks ago my therapist got really frustrated with me and though he had vowed to not give up on me...(an attempt I think to build trust as I suffer from abandonment issues) he dropped me like a hot potato and refused to refer me to another therapist. He told me it was "my work to do and...

Did anyone else start having crazy and vivid dreams when they started on SNRIs? I have been having the most vivid and detailed dreams that are absurd, oddly terrifying and yet so clear I feel like they are trying to tell me something. Some of them have been suicide dreams (me covered in blood...