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Went to the therapist, and she was very, very helpful. She said that she wanted me to have meds on Friday because I felt depressed and numb, that I was shutting down. She would like me to have a psychiatrist eval at some point, for a large part to put my mind at ease, but the psychiatrist she...

Thank you! Those seem to be great videos. I guess I am going to have to go to a psychiatrist and get meds, even though I have tried to avoid this.

Thank you therapybankrupt, DMerish and all who replied. I began feeling much better yesterday after being around friends (even though I didn't really want to go out--I felt that if I went out everyone would look at me and know how out of my head I was feeling). I am going to the therapist this...

Solara, When I talked to the therapist, I was feeling pretty bad. I told her I felt depressed. She asked if I had thoughts about hurting myself. I told her that I would not hurt myself, which was and is true, regardless of whether I have dark thoughts. She wanted to call my doctor and get...

It was really hard to start going to a therapist in general—I cannot imagine having to go to a hospital and tell the story all over again. Being told by a middle eastern male doctor that I had no choice about entering the hospital is probably one of the biggest triggers I can think of. I was...

I started the next phase of EMDR three days ago, and I haven't felt well since. I had a 1.5 hour session, processed a memory from when my dad died when I was a teenager, before the abuse that I have PTSD from. The EMDR session itself didn't seem that upsetting, but I did have a few tears. It...