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Looking for help understanding what is happening to me. I definitely experience what one typically thinks of as a flashback, with visuals and being back in the moment. Fortunately, those tend to be brief. Not the emotional aspect, but the being their visually part. I have also recently...

So, just before I fall asleep at night I get intense flashbacks. I can't fall asleep after, and need to stay up until I am exhausted just to get to sleep. It is rare for me to remember dreams, when I do fall asleep I sleep deeply. But nightmares are still popping in. Worse than nightmares, my...

After being sexually assaulted 6 months ago Inwas really nervous about going in for a pap smear, and also decided an IUD would be the best option for me. I was scared out of my wits, but the benefits of this particular IUD outweighed that. I have decent insurance, but dis not feel comfortable...

So... I really don't like talking about this night. I blame myself so much. Did my best to drown it out and hide it away, but I am having flashbacks to it now and I need some input. Was this... or wasn't this? I was a teenager, maybe about 18 or so. Hanging out at a local coffee shop, met a...

I could really benefit from some input here. This is really tough for me, but here goes. I grew up being told about how my biological father molested me as a toddler. About how he beat my mother, locked me in a room for days at a time, and eventually tried to kill us by piling snow up on a...

I am in CBT after sexual assault. We have talked a good deal about my abusive upbringing, and on one hand I feel like I have made some progress. On the other, I feel caught in an avalache. There is so much here to sort out. Things that I have never forgotten, and then things that I have all...

But, something. Started journaling, had a really productive session with my T and starting to feel a vague flicker of hope again, that the person I used to be before the assault is still in there somewhere. Oh, and this big dude dressed just like some droog out of Clockwork Orange walked by my...

I love my CBT therapist, I really do. From me, that is saying a lot. I had some really horrible experiences around counseling and the like as a teen and the whole process is intensely triggering for me in itself as an adult. Finding myself able to work with a counselor is sort of an achievement...

I was literally just diagnosed with PTSD earlier this evening. I figured I should do what I can to find resources and break from my isolation tendancies. Working with a CBT psychologist, some of it is helpful, some of it isn't. Par for the course I guess. I have no idea how long I have been...