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Hey She Cat and Kers Thanks for your replies. After reading this, I spent 5 hours typing a 2 page letter to the Psychiatrist to take with me. So thank you. I couldn't write details about the first trauma, but was able to briefly list the extent of the second abuse. I explained how difficult it...

Hi everyone :hello: Okay... I'm in need of a little support and advice from people who know what I'm talking about, which is what brings me here....After years of stubborness, I have given in and am now about to see a private psychiatrist (on Wednesday). To fill you in... because otherwise...

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Absolutely not! I actually feel violent if anyone gets near me.

Absolutely... I prefer to be alone most of the time... I prefer the simple life, because my life is already too stressful. When I'm the stressed at my maximum...I need to completely alone, with no people, no contact, no things that need to be done... I literally just need me and my mind. Or...

CONGRATULATIONS!! CONGRATULATIONSCONGRATULATIONS!! I'm so pleased for you... And this!!

Hi linasmom... ... Im not sure WHY EMDR is considered generally not suitable for Complex PTSD... one thing I can say is that at the moment, therapists are not sure WHY EMDR even works... just that is does. There are theories, and research being carried out as to why at the moment though and...

rob4444 - I just couldn't live anywhere with those deadly spiders. I'm glad you survived the bite! The funny thing is, I suppose most would think I fear spiders biting? But I don't think any in England do, or if they do they don't have teeth! I'm just scared of them getting on me! How crazy is...

I feel you on that... me and my ipod allows the world and people to be elsewhere... music is my space.

Good shit, Veiled! I'm so pleased for you, honestly... it's so, so good to be hearing about those who come away from this forum with changed, better lives... certainly gives the hope and inspiration i need to keep movitivated! Wishing you all the very best. Lisa.

I'd be.... a dragon!! Guess cos it would make me feel powerful and strong which is the opposite to how I actually feel! Has anyone seen The Golden Compass? I'd be Pan... because I could change into many animals and I'd have someone who I'd never leave and could never leave me... *gag* how sad...

Hey She Cat I don't feel I need an apology from you... but I wanted to say it takes a big person to do that, and to publicly apologise to Nic too which you could have done privately and chose not to... Don't want to be patronising... but I'm proud of you. Can't think of any other way to put...

Hi ricoforkids - Repressed/suppressed/recovered traumatic memory is complicated, because of the False Memory Syndrome debate. A lot of therapists are a little wary of trying to recover memories because of this... it needs to be done very carefully. What I can say is, it's good that there is...

Linasmom - I have heard of somatization yes, can't remember exactly what it means - but I don't think I've heard of it in the way you are referring to it... I'd be really interested to hear about it... Yep kers- that's exactly what I was asking! I also have all the ones everyone has listed...

Wendy, I'm sorry that this has all happened. This forum is about helping ourselves and others if we can, and boundaries are in place... but whether someone respects boundaries is another matter. I didn't comment on this thread... I didn't know who was being talked about and I didn't try...

Best of luck Upstream! I'm very happy for you!!

I just wanted to ask, for those of you who 'space out' or dissociate, what it's like for you? I guess I want to know if it's anything like me. I was just on the phone to a friend, and I started to space out... I managed to pull out of it because I had somebody who was talking to me at the time...

Couldn't agree more!!

Here's how I experienced psychiatrists. Lisa has been fully assessed by a psychiatrist once in her lifetime, when she was 17 by the child services, and this was in relation to self-harm and not anything else. At 18, she had a spell in hospital. Whilst she was in hospital, nobody actually...

WELL DONE!! Ohhh, I am so pleased for you!! It's bloody hard work studying with PTSD - but you got there man... ! Good for you!!

With difficulty... for me, I am on a constant tightrope. The biggest thing I find is keeping everything as constant as possible and avoiding any extra stress in life... hard as life isn't predictable. I have just about managed to get through 3 years of my degree... Im in my third year now, and...

haha "or is he just being an inconsiderate twat"...sorry but I found that amusing, it's something I would say! ... well... I must say I have great difficulty with sense of time. I am known for saying "what day is it? Is it monday, tuesday or wednesday? What's the date?"... I lose track of...

Please tell me it's not mothers day in England?! If it is, I'm in trouble!