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I understand the basic idea behind "I statements." The trouble is you do need something that puts the onus on the other person. In my experience, if I say "I feel X when you do Y", the focus becomes not on fixing Y, but on figuring out what's wrong with me and what I should change so I don't...

Part of my problem is that I experienced a lot of trauma and disbelief within the mental health system. I have multiple examples of seeking mental health treatment significantly worsening my condition, often to the point of wanting to die when I previously didn't without the treatment. At this...

I've had a lot of bad experiences in mental health. One, I'm a goth, and I've had a lot of practitioners who seem to have negative views of that and see me as disturbed or even potentially suicidal because of how I dress. Two, I've had practitioners disbelieve or mishandle the fact that I was...

I'm tired of having to remove toxic people from my life. I'm tired of having to do all the work of having "safe boundaries" when you end up having to abandon things that are important to you and getting really badly hurt. My experience is that most toxic people...you end up hurt as much from...

Just an ongoing frustration. Abuse by mental health professionals is NOT bad therapy, or painful therapy, or whatever. It is abuse, and it has all the traumatic ramifications of abuse. Telling a survivor of psychiatric abuse that therapy can be hard isn't helpful. Nor is talking about how...

This is an ongoing struggle I've been having. I have a few people in my family who just forget everything I say, it seems. And it's made it almost impossible to set boundaries, because inevitably the response is "But you never said anything about that, you always were ok with me doing that and...

My trouble at this point...I've had repeated instances of trauma, and in all but one case when I went back over there was nothing I could have reasonably done to avoid it. I've gone over the situation with experts, everything, and it just keeps coming back, I did the best I could and I still...

This is one thing I've never been able to understand about the idea of cognitive distortions. It's not that I don't get what they are, but I don't get how you're supposed to tell what is and isn't a distortion. And I'm just left in a place where I feel like cognitive distortions seem to depend...

This has been an ongoing problem for me. I've been in a lot of places in life where street harassment is just inevitable. I don't make enough money to avoid the "bad" areas, especially since I don't have a car and rely on public transit. Harassment just seems to be a constant - we're talking...

Is there anyone else here who has dealt with treatment itself being the trigger? Not triggers coming up in treatment, but the very act of treatment itself, even without trying to address anything, being triggering. I dealt with abuse within the psychiatric system. To this day, dealing with...

This has been one of my ongoing issues, and one that it seems like no therapist ever has any idea of how to deal with. How do you cope in situations where healthy boundaries simply aren't an option on the table? I know long-term you try to get out of the situation, but in the short term how do...

I don't know what to do anymore. A significant part of the initial trauma for me involved the mental health system and abuses perpetuated within it. Since then trying medications has introduced new traumas and new bad symptoms to go with them. I've need help but I'm terrified at this point...

I'm just hitting the point where I feel like I've tried everything. I don't do well on SSRI's - massive suicidal ideation, and I don't feel safe trying them. I have no one to check on me, if things go wrong I'm pretty much left on my own, and I'm far too terrified of mental hospitals to ever...

So I'm supposed to see a psychiatrist Monday to get meds. And I feel like I have to, because I can't work and can't get disability right now. It's the only thing that might keep me paying the bills. Thing is, I don't want them. I almost killed myself twice because of meds taking over my...

Been living with PTSD for what, 5 years now? Only been able to access treatment during these past few months. Trying to keep with it but a lot of times it feels like it's making everything worse. My history's a massive compound of incidents on top of other incidents, it's left me scarred about...