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Freeze - In times of phisical danger ( car accidents or dating violent man)
Anger - when I sense emotional danger (usually my reaction will be not proportional to the situation). I also use anger as "don't mass with me" message.
she is a good match.
i am more calm today and understand why i behaved / felt the way i did. it was a trigger.
thank you very much for taking the time to answer me :-)
Rationally I agree with everything you wrote
Emotionally I don't care. Her problems are not mine. And if she is not feeling well she can cancel the meeting. It is not my role to think about her problems. I have my own. All my life I was a parent to my parents and my brother. And know I am real...
I think that it's normal. You want to know more about him because you are becoming more attached to him. I did the same with My T. When she was on vacation I missed her and googled her ( didn't find anything , she is not internet friendly :) ). Don't feel bad about it I think that it's very human.
You are right.
I wrote her that I was insulted from her. She wrote me back that in the case of the next clients there was a special situation and she had to receive them on time.
You were right.
God i feel so stupid!!!!
I had a meeting with my T this morning and I didn’t have the courage to speak with her about it. the meeting was waste of time.
I was in a good mood (for a change :-) ) so the meeting was not full of terrible descriptions. we spoke little about the abuse and who is...
Yes - there are few songs that bring 2-3 tears and it stops . . . it’s always when i am driving on my way to work.
on the other hand, I was with my son on the playground few weeks ago and suddenly felt that I am going to start sobbing in the middle of the garden. when it comes it comes in...
Yes, I do have a T and i told her few times that I have challenge crying but she never said anything about it. i think/feel that she doesn’t want to push it and maybe knows that I will cry when the time will come.
when I just started going to her about a year ago it was because some urgent...
I am not an atheist. I do believe in God ( but not the God of the Bible ). after I remembered the abuse I realized how all my spiritual / new age beliefs are "going out of the window". As if I needed them to purify the demeged place in my soul. And now that I know about the abuse I don't need...
Thank you very much for all your supportive comments. I will speak with my T next session about this issue.
Your comments supported me very much to decide and speak with her.
If you suspect sexual abuse maybe try to find a T that specialize in SA. But more important than that is the person itself. If a T is warm and compationet that can do the work even if they don't have special training in this trauma.
About the memories ... They will come when you feel strong...
Ok , here is the thing. Usually I love writing. I used to write a journal my entire childhood.
But I can't write anything about the abuse. Until 2 months ago I even didn't know it happened (although I allwayes suspected something bad happened in my childhood ). Writing is as if I am accepting...
I don't think about crying as a special goal. I just need to cry NOW. And I can't. I don't think that I will accomplish something by crying. It's just an emotional need. Like getting angry. Which is also very difficult for me.
I have a chalange with crying. I really want to cry my heart out. Even to scream. The last 2 month since the abuse came out were so difficult. I hardly worked or slept. I feel the tears but I can't take them out. I tried to scream in my car but felt stupid.
I cried when my father died or my...
I know exactly what you mean about the mother role.
I keep very strong boundaries with my T. More than her boundaries as a T. At the beginning I was afraid of being attached to her or to want her to be my mother and then be disappointed. I held very strong on those boundaries. I don't call her...
The first thing she told me when I told her about the abuse was that it never happened to her. It was in a context which I don't remember at the moment. So I don't think this is the issue. ( although at the time I thought that it was strange she told me)
On other issue with my mother , before...
You mean that if you see the same thing happen to someone else and the other person say it's abuse - only than- you feel it's abuse?
I feel the same in a way. Sometimes I tell my T very difficult things with a smile. And when she say that she is so sad for me, after few hours I suddenly realize...
You know what, you are right! In the beginning when the abuse came out and it was vague body sensations or dreams she used to tell me things like:" oh I am so sad for you " or when I started to see the abuser in the flashbacks she said : "it's heart breaking". And I knew 100% that she is with...