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Thank you for the replies. I didn't think it was that appropriate for them to tell me, but being in the hospital I didn't know what was accurate. I appreciate your analysis and I sympathize with your journeys as well.

I am wondering if it's worse for you to hear the surprise in a therapist's voice when you tell your story? Does it change the way your therapist - client relationship goes? What happens when they say things like you are the worst case I have heard? Does that make it easier to talk to them and be...

I was a certified EMT and if you think you have any inclination of having ANY type of heart attack ( ) whether it was mild moderate or severe, the FIRST thing you do is call 911. YOU don't know best, though you might think you do. You have to put your EX out of the equation totally in this...

Thanks for the support. I was unsure I did the right thing. I knew the hospital would have been more traumatizing, but you know how therapists always stress calling them when people talk about suicide. I appreciate the support and I heard from her today. She is still down, but she is with us and...

I have been feeling like a pariah since I was a kid and my family put kid gloves on then. I always felt like an outsider looking in, and it hasn't changed at all. I put on a good act. I've learned since I was in the military to play my role. Now I know how to do it pretty well.

I had my whole life planned when I was 12 after I initially planned to kill myself. I thought if I planned to be good and work in good jobs to help people I would be forgiven for wanting to die. When things exploded on me 25 years later, and I lost my career, I lost all expectation of the...

The only person I can really relate to in the world is this person who spent 6 months in a state hospital with me for childhood sexual abuse. We both should never have been there, but didn't have the money to pay for private care. We got lost in the state system and that's a long miserable...

RedLuna if you are in the US you can call the Suicide Hotline which is a crisis line 24 hours a day. Its 1800-273-8255. I believe in England they have a Samaritans number but not sure what that is. You can Google the Samaritans and they have a 24 hour crisis line as well. I can understand the...

I'm sorry for coming across insensitive if I did. I think I look at people who have children and are married and feel sad because I've never had that. I know that's selfish on my part, but my safest I have ever felt was with my Mom whenever she could be around and I always wanted to share that...

All I can say is you need think of your children and to do it for your children. You had them and they are new people in this world. I know it doesn't seem fair what we went through with all the different types of trauma, but they are a different generation and they depend on you. I depended on...

I was sexually abused for most of my childhood by family members. Not to mention emotionally abused. I decided after I was 12, and stopped myself from committing suicide, that I would only do useful things for society. I wanted to work in law enforcement and put people in jail. That worked well...

Hashi have you had a hard time between both PTSD and OCD therapists? Or do you see one therapist for both? I have had a very hard time with the concrete way OCD is handled and the way they look at it as if you aren't getting better than it's something you aren't doing correctly. That's the way...

I'm sorry I came off sounding like I was ok with my therapist making those comments. I don't like it or feel good about it at all. I was trying to relate to your situation where you also feel horrible by what your therapist said to you. It hurts me deeply that my therapist would think so little...

I'm sorry you're going through this difficult situation. I can definitely relate to frustrating therapists. I'm dealing with something similar but different too. My therapist started telling me how being sexually abused really wasn't that big of a deal, because so many many people go thru...

I will never fully trust another therapist again after what has happened to me with the mental health system, but this new therapist has promised she would never send me to the State hospital. That alone has provided relief after being in one for 6 months and then escaping. It's worse than any...

I suppose I didn't have a lot of coping skills at that time, or today for that matter. I've been in the hospital quite a bit due to self injury, severe self injury, and suicidal attempts...so going thru this type of therapy was very traumatizing. The only thing I've focused on was death, so...

I'm wondering after a recent post if I'm even doing the correct therapy. On an online support group a Psychologist told me that the only thing that truly work for PTSD was Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). I know CBT from my OCD therapy and he's talking about exposure therapy. Right now I'm...

I don't understand Solara, what other therapy am I supposed to be in? I thought we were supposed to recount what happened to us so we could explain the emotions that we hid or repressed since we were children or in whatever trauma that had taken place? That's the way I had it explained. I know...

I went to see one of my therapist (yes I have a couple) today. She told me that I had been pulling away because I wanted an excuse to kill myself. I had a pact with the other therapist that I wouldn't try to kill myself while I was in therapy with her. I cancelled with her the last week and...

Thank you Echo. I have made friends in very structured environments like the military where I feel like I can be useful. The only problem is as soon as I was done I cut off all ties to people. I was afraid of any relationships, of any lasting bonds I could have. So my lasting I now have is with...

I can relate. I'm sorry you've had such a tough time of it lately. It's so hard being lonely. I know what loneliness feels like and does to people. I have been lonely since I was a child. I've never found a relationship with anyone. I feel like an enigma of the human race. I've never been close...

I completely understand! I told my therapists that I do so much better with writing, yet they still want me to talk about everything. I think if I could just write a bunch of things before therapy and hand it in, then wait for them to read it, everyone would be happy. Instead I sit there...

Thank you, Justmehere, I was stuck in that place for 6 months until I escaped. I don't know how long they would have kept me. They get a good check from the state for filling the beds so it could have been a while. I was traumatized tenfold beyond what I had already gone thru as a child. I...

A state hospital is run by the government. It's where you go in the USA if you don't have insurance to pay for a private facility. Often times people from the criminal justice system are incarcerated in the hospital. So you are all place in the same units together...abusers and the abused.

I was just wondering if anyone here has been sent to a State Hospital for PTSD? In Massachusetts if you can't pay your insurance or hospital bill, no matter what your diagnosis, they send you to a state hospital. Believe me it makes the trauma ten fold worse then when you went in. They don't...