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She is not a trauma therapist, but on her website she mentioned that she can treat people who have suffered from traumatic events among all the other issues like anxiety, depression, etc.

As a little background, I never had a therapist before but I finally decided that I should get help for my issues because I have a lot of them and at times it gets overwhelming....I started out really excited and made an appointment, but I just came back from my second session and I'm really...

@Strangelongtrip I can totally relate to what you are saying, I only seem to want to get close to people who are emotionally unavailable, who appear to reject me or I have to fight for their attention. However, if they start caring about me I want to push them away believing I'm not worthy of...

I can relate to the feeling of being disconnected from others and watching yourself doing stuff, at the beginning this would get me really anxious but now I got used to it. I get really confused and almost dizzy so it's hard to concentrate on what I have to do. I also sometimes stare at...

Update: I booked my first therapy appointment for next week. I chose a female therapist who says on her website she has experience in working with trauma and anxiety, which is what I was searching for. I'm nervous but also very excited to start, I hope she will be a good fit. :) Because of my...

I also struggle to maintain relationships because of anxiety and just my mental health in general. It's like I desire to have meaningful relationships and be close to people but sometimes the impluse of pushing others away and isolating myself is too strong.

Thank you @Strangelongtrip for sharing your experience, it's amazing how anxiety can mess with our mind. At the time these episodes started to happen I didn't knew about dissociation but the description seems to fit to some extent. I was mostly struggling because even though I knew these ideas...

I have been an anxious person since childhood, worrying about everything, but usually I had a clear reason why (health, school grades, family members that were abusive, etc.) However, some years ago it got to a different level; I remember one night I was preparing to go to sleep, I was very calm...

You are not alone, I struggle with health anxiety from childhood and in the back of my mind I always believe I have a serious illness, even if I feel ok I still go to sleep every night thinking I might not wake up tomorrow...I wonder what I will do later in life (I'm in my 20's now) when I will...

Thanks for the encouragement, I think I will start searching for a therapist because in the end I do need help... But I'm not going to pay someone that is just killing time talking about stupid stuff. I had a more positive experience with a mentor to whom I told my story, but he was not ready...

The reason I said that therapist didn't care about my issues was that after I shared with him what I was going through he went on explaining me the difference between sprite and other types of soda and why people buy more one product that another, it had absolutely nothing to do with my problem...

Thank you @berlinda for your kind response, it helped me think about therapy more in detail. I managed to get on with things without it, I went to a therapist once some years ago when I couldn't bear the anxiety attacks anymore but he couldn't care less and I didn't go back either. CBT sounds...

Hi everyone, I just need a place where I could share some thoughts because sometimes life is just overwhelming...on the outside I'm looking fine, I got a new job, I have a group of friends and I would say I'm close to my family, but inside I'm soooo broken...I struggle to maintain my friendships...

Recently I started to reflect more about my childhood and I remembered certain things I never thought about before but I'm not sure what meaning to give them... I'm really embarrassed by what I'm about to write, even if it may seem like not a big deal at all. Well, throughout my childhood my...

Thank you, you are right, the more I think about it the more confused I am...sometimes it is a challenge to trust myself but I want to grow in this.

I struggle a lot with trusting my memories in general, not just traumatic ones. There was a time in my life if I had an important conversation with someone I would replay it in my mind over and over again to be sure I heard it right and understood the message, even if I just finished talking to...

Being listened to. When I was struggling with anxiety just being able to tell someone how I'm feeling would calm me down.

I think the description of a flashback fits, the difference would be that I didnt relieve the experience with the feelings I had in the past, because initially I had no reaction to it. Maybe at that time it was too overwhelming to process.

Hello! It's the first time I'm posting on these forums and just by reading your stories I could relate a lot. :) Maybe you could give me some insights about an experience I had a while ago: I was sharing the story of my life with someone (a mentor but not a therapist, never went to therapy) and...