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I'm 30, so finding a good therapist who is older will be easy enough as I don't want someone fresh out of college. I saw 2 student therapists a few years ago, both female. One was close to my age and I felt more inclined to want to be her friend, the other was also my age but didn't seem to...

That's interesting! I have trouble sleeping as well. I know this probably sounds creepy, but sometimes I feel like a child when I am trying to go to sleep and I feel comforted if I think of my therapist. I feel safe in his presence and I try to feel safe at night by thinking of him watching over me.

I might be looking for a new therapist and I just did a general search for them in my area and started to judge each therapist by their gender, looks, and age. My trauma revolves around my mom and brother. I am feeling pulled towards someone who is older than me by at least 15 years and female...

Mine will cock his head and I will notice that he is watching me. He usually waits a minute until he senses I am back and he will ask if I just went somewhere, or ask me where I went, or if I'm starting to slip away he will ask if I'm shutting down. All of those things seem helpful because I...

I can't totally relate, but I do know that ADHD can cause self esteem problems if you are messing up a lot at work. I have more of the inattentive ADD and struggled with details at work and my boss had the "this can't happen again" talk with me 5 or 6 times before she suggested that I might have...

Do all of you have therapy treatment plans? Is it common to have a trauma treatment plan with your therapist or is it mostly "patient-lead"? I entered into therapy with my current therapist about 9 months ago for things unrelated to PTSD and was diagnosed about 6 months ago by him with PTSD...

@kahlan i too can't cry in front of anyone. I dissociate if I feel I'm about to cry.

I know how you feel about shutting down and not being able to speak. I get that too, though it's less now that I have built more trust with my therapist and have learned coping skills and have become more aware of my feelings. I think it's also part of dissociating. Tell your therapist that...

I have also had sessions that I felt like I wasted time. A few times I emailed my therapist and told him how I felt like it was a bad session, other times I brought it up in the next session and he helped me work through what made it bad or why I was feeling that way. Other times I stewed over...

I've never been able to read. I think I have read 10 nonacademic books in my 30 years, and I am not sure I even read any school books cover to cover. I was diagnosed with ADD at 26, which has made a lot of sense and has helped explain my inability to read. I will read a paragraph, then usually...

Ask your daughter to invest in an Ergo carrier and then you can have your hands free while baby gets to be held. Watch Happiest Baby On The Block and learn the 5 S's. Give her Motrin- ask her mom what the correct dose is. Wear earplugs as much as you need to. Get a white noise app on your phone...

Well then you should try to tell yourself that you are safe considering he is in the ICU.

I think you should call the hospital he is supposedly at and verify that he is in fact a patient there.

I'm not looking for advice on what to do about my relationship, I'm looking for advice on how to get thru the next few days without conflict.

I truly wish it was that easy. We are both financially dependant on each other, and the thought of me having to split my son up and not see him every day makes this really hard. My question wasn't ab

I too, was thinking that your extra thought and preparing for talking with a female T could have helped you ease your anxiety a bit to make it less threatening. It's sort of like studying for a big test: if you don't study, you will for sure have anxiety about not passing, but if you study a...

Ok, So my fiance and I have been through a very rough patch for the last 8 months-basically since we both entered separate therapy and stopped smoking weed. We don't get along AT ALL now, I have come to realize that the weed is what kept us from bickering and realizing the problems we have. My...

Isn't it interesting to see how worried you were to speak to a female therapist but somehow managed to have such an amazing session? That seems like a good start!

NLotfalla-I wonder if you are very open with people too early in your relationships with them? I might be jumping to conclusions here, but my guess is that you met this person and right away confided in them about your challenges, and they saw the opportunity to take advantage of you. Maybe...

It's rare I sleep through the night, and since I have been in therapy, I wake with nightmares or very disturbing dreams. They don't seem to be related to any trauma I've had which makes them a little unsettling. Last week I had a dream that a man was peeking into my window in the night and he...

And I also wanted to say congrats on the weight loss! Even after having a baby!! That is amazing work you did :)

Do you think how you feel right now is possibly post-partum depression? Seems there might be a correlation between body image, baby, and feeling worse than ever. Maybe you should address this with your therapist if you haven't yet?

Look up the video "mindfulness with Jon kaba-zinn" (the one that is 27minutes long with 67,000 views). It's a good place to start to learn about not judging everything. This will probably seem like a bunch of hippy b.s. (I know I did!) but that is a judgement too, right? So just try it... even...

This is about mindfulness meditation. Look up John Kabat-Zinn on YouTube for some guided meditations. This is apparently true according to my therapist as well. Look up Daniel Siegel.

I like what ghosty said :) it takes a lot of pressure off you, and it allows you to stop obsessing over the upcoming session. Detailing your past doesn't seem helpful quite yet.