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Yes I do. Thank you.

Yeah and even if they are extremely empathic, which I feel is what we who have to deal with this stuff need, everybody gets things wrong sometime or can be out of sync. Isn't it hard though how certain things can just send your symptoms soaring. I guess feeling like I lost my therapist for a...

Thanks everyone for your comments. I'm with a therapist whose been doing trauma work for 30 years and I have another therapist - the two work together - who is actually doing sessions with my mother and me and I'm in a group with these two women (therapists). Its like every time I think I'm...

I am feeling totally hopeless about getting to a better place regarding my symptoms. There are so many layers of fear and trauma starting when I was so young. I realize some of the terror began when I was younger than I thought. I've been in good therapy - but I feel like a walking wound or...

I can totally relate to this, but perhaps for different reasons. Self-care becomes scary for me because it feels dangerous. Cooking definitely, and food shopping extremely. This partly has to do with the verbal abuse and shaming that occurred when I did anything wrong. Although my husband is...

I have terrible morning anxiety where I can't really move or do anything. I'm afraid all I do is take ativan and wait for it to take effect and then I'm OK. Until then I look at the computer. Its hard to even take a shower in this state. However, the more regularly I do yoga the better it is...

I'm glad you had a good experience. I have complex PTSD and am very reactive and PTSD has been way too intense for me. I left the session the last time feeling like I was back at home in such an intense way and spent a lot of the weekend in bed frozen. So Obviously I'm not stable enough or...

I don't write much but I can totally relate to this. There are days my anxiety is so bad I can't get out of bed - I feel frozen. It's gotten better, but still I get so down on myself for not being able to do what others can. Even the simplest projects. I can take care of my daughter, work...

when you can't get out of bed because you feel frozen with anxiety and fear even though there is nothing scary around you. When it is scary to do little things because getting out of that frozen state feels too dangerous.

thank you for the welcomes. The anxiety is just killing me and I'm so down on myself about it. I'm beginning to wonder if no matter what I do it won't get better.

I think it is OK to need your counselor. It is just hard when they aren't available. Dependency is not a bad thing. However, I know how hard it is to be triggered and have, at least for me, anxiety. My anxiety is just out of control and I've had a hard time finding grounding techniques that...

Just introducing myself. suffering from profound frequent anxiety that is at times immobilizing. Struggling with self-criticism and figuring out how to work this through. Working with a good trauma therapist and EMDR specialist and on meds. But, its been very hard lately

I'm new to this forum. I just have to say about the highs and lows, I feel like I'm on an emotional roller coaster, or like a small boat in a storm - sacked around constantly. I wake up early am with excruciating anxiety I'm better during some of the day, then profoundly...