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My goals for today are to stick to healthy foods and organise my to do list. And maybe start on painting the kitchen.

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Hi Jane, I could have written much of this. Especially the blackouts - I'm hearing you! I have been prescribed mild sleep meds and they do stop the dreams and the decent sleep does help with coping. And when I cope better I am less likely to reach for the bottle. I am also absolutely not going...

Exactly, it's a hard line to walk. Oh I hope so! Thank you for that, he's really unemotional though so I think 'really pleased' isn't going to be it, but some sort of acknowledgement that it was helpful for him, or will be helpful for us, would be good. We'll see, I'm going to be in knots by...

Additionally, people who don't understand PTSD often do think we should 'get over things'. This is the clinical issue, PTSD is what happens when you can't get over things. It is a medically recognised condition. They may not understand this, but you can. Be gentle with yourself.

Good for you Shannon. My significant other has no idea and would never get it either. But..(just like arfie said), he is my partner not my therapist so I'm clear in my own mind on that. Your first priority should be to find some help that will allow you work through your trauma and be in a...

Jane thank you! Oh man, I should've taken your advice. Well I tried to but a few things happened on my way to T that triggered a flashback and I was still a bit dissociated when I arrived. I did tell him this. I was concentrating on giving him the paper and was unprepared for his usual...

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This is a truth I know. Thank you for telling me again. Sometimes I'm not sure that the EMDR process has helped me with the ability to share. I don't have to tell it, I have to think it. But if I think it and then avoid it, only I can hold myself accountable. And I'm not always so great at...

Thank you for your responses. Maddog, that is good advice. I'm trying to rehearse in my mind how I introduce this, but thinking about it is stressing me. Can't believe it's Monday already..

So this Tuesday I suspect is going to be the biggest of the big. I do EMDR. We are time limited, I have 20 sessions budgeted on the NHS (UK) and we are up to number 14 this week. My therapist is fantastic. Over the last few months I have come to trust him with things I never ever thought I...

My goal for tomorrow is to not get too worried about T on Tuesday. Also have invited another family for dinner (8 total) so to be planned and organised and not too self critical....it will be fine.

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Got 10 mins before my friend picks me up to go climbing...felling anxious...but going to do it.

I would like to be inside your head, and see the big picture sometimes. How many people do you see, how do you see them, how do I compare? Am I like them? Am I very nuts, or sort of nuts or making a big deal out of nothing? In those silences, are you planning what you are going to have for...

Britt, I like that goal. OK so this thread is cool. It's like making a commitment to paper, but an understanding kind of paper that doesn't just stare back at you and say "what you looking at?!" I'm wiped out tonight but..Tomorrow, I am going to go rock-climbing, I'm going to bite the...

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I like the idea that PTSD could be inspirational for art... or that my mindset could be considered interesting.. or that the struggles that I stumble through could be acknowledged as food for expanding the human state of being...but I would have severe issues of trust if someone I was close too...

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Everybody feels some level of fear responses don't they? I like what quic says, about the healthy state being able to the manage the thought and associated feelings appropriately without being overwhelmed. My T is trying to get me to be more mindful about the interactions between my intrusive...

Hey there. Your dream sounds incredible and empowering! I hope it is a reflection of your waking time shift in cognitions about yourself: ie that it was rape, that you did not deserve it, that you should be able to stand up and say this is wrong and not feel ashamed but in fact be supported and...

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