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Today I'm not thinking about how many more things I have to overcome or how many more years of therapy and hard work I have still ahead of me. Today, I'm thinking about how far I've come already since I began therapy many years ago and it is a very good feeling. I began therapy about a decade...

Yes, unfortunately they did. The student wanted to run out of the classroom and leave the school, so I had to block their way for their own safety as they are quite young and couldn't be allowed to leave the school grounds and so the child hit many many times on the body and then slapped my...

Yesterday I had the best therapy breakthrough and was riding on a high. This morning I went to work and was slapped across the face by a student and now I am triggered BIG time. I feel so stressed and shaky tonight and wish I could get back the happy feeling from yesterday. 😞

Oh my gosh! I can't believe it! I had a go at writing my own version of the letter today. I didn't think I would be able to do it and there was lots of anxiety and fear. And although I didn't address all of my negative thoughts about myself I was able to address two significant ones. For...

That's horrible, sorry to hear that. Covid certainly puts that added level of pressure on everything that's definitely not needed. I hope you're hanging in there.

Nice to hear from you! 😁 👋

Sunday morning, Aussie time. 👋 Up early to take my son to swimming lessons. So many jobs to do today but feel like doing none of them. Work avoidance day, I think. 😆

I totally understand this. It doesn't happen so quick with me. I see my T once a week at the moment and I find if I go much longer between sessions then I find it very hard. It's not that he's a total stranger to me, but for me I don't feel convinced he's the same, the rules are the same and...

Thanks, guys. It is definitely one of those hit-you-in-the-guts kind of things. I've had a bit of a cry but still think there's more to come. Sometimes my dissociation cuts off my sadness without me wanting it to. I do feel thankful to be back with my current T. He definitely helps me a lot.

I just had the hardest session with my T yesterday. We started looking at a long-held automatic thought of mine that causes a lot of fear and pain - that people hate me. He asked me about what is underneath that thought, as in what is it about me that makes me feel that way? It was only then...

Sunny as heck here today (not rubbing it in). Haven't managed to go back to sleep since 3am, going to be a long day! Oh well, 14 million cups of tea should help. 😂

Eh... my son woke me up at 2am. Five minutes later, he's snoring and an hour later I'm still awake. 🤪

Just called farming here. No, you're right, we don't use the word 'ranch'. We do sometimes call them cattle stations, otherwise we mainly just refer to them as farms. In lots of our shows like 'Neighbours' (probably don't get that one over there) they make out like our weather is super warm...

Most of our countryside in Australia isn't even that green, I have been told it is digitally edited for overseas viewing to make it look less dry! 😂

Hahaha. Oh well, at least you don't have Drop Bears. 😉😂 I tuned out with some quality (or not so quality) Aussie soap opera. 😁

Okay, will give it a go. Warning though, if you take the Aussie summer over to where you are, you have to take our national birds too... okay, they're not birds, they're blowflies...

That sounds great. I really find it helps me to sort of identify with them all, I guess.

That sounds hard! Opposite ends of the earth, I guess. I will stop rubbing the sunshine in everyone's faces! 😜😂

My physical health is affecting my mood so badly today. I've fallen in a heap and I just feel so low and sad. About to watch a movie or something and hope that distracts me enough to snap out of it. Too tired to concentrate on anything else much.

I know what you mean @Invisible Fire . The Covid situation has been ok where I am for a few months now but when it was all in lockdown I found it really difficult with the 'normal' level of PTSD stress and the extra stressor of covid on top. It's pretty horrible What season is it where...

Yes, @Wendell_R - I have some parts that are fairly new to me that I haven't been able to draw yet. I don't know enough about them, I can't yet work out their personality and imagine what they might look like. I like the idea of journal pages with things they like and safe places - that's a...

Each time I am introduced to a new identity and get to know enough about them, I like to draw them. Does anybody else draw or collage or do anything else to show what their identities are like, or to explore the different parts?

That is exactly how it is for my husband, often. It's nice and simultaneously not nice to know someone else experiences that. I agree that they have to check women aren't in trouble but I think there are better ways of doing so. I am just starting to do that too. but it can be tricky. I...

You put this so well and that is definitely me too. I have actually just started doing what you have suggested, something my hubby suggested just the other day too - making a list of symptoms. There are definitely more there than I realised, that I have been busy drifting away from but even...

That sounds exactly like me @Friday . I love the Lego question!! I had never thought of giving a reference, I might try that. It was only last time I was in hospital that it really clicked with me that I needed to adjust it in some way or express it differently as the pain I was tolerating...