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Thank you everyone. He gave me a piece of paper with a bunch of grounding techniques on it to read through. He said we'd talk more about it later. I read through it, some of them I kind of already do without having any clue I was doing them. I don't think I've ever done them during a bad...

Oh, I've also seen up some of 10 different kinds of specialists. I've actually forgotten all of them. Cardiologists, immunologists, allergists, neurologists, rheumatologists, gastroenterologists, ENT....I don't know, seriously everyone possible.

I've been doing this for 2+ years. Doctors have no idea, I don't have somatoform, although its been mentioned before. I get a lot of weird symptoms of a lot of different things. It started with one really bad infection, that nobody could figure out what it was, or even where it was, but it got...

There is another whole thread regarding how I found this psychologist, and the struggles I have with therapy. I was SO afraid and nervous. We started out messaging on an anonymous message system. He continued to state that he would like me to keep thinking about coming in, and I DID it. I was...

A little off topic - but are you saying she has PTSD from her significant other killing themself a week ago? PTSD cannot be diagnosed until the symptoms have last at least a month. Sustaining trauma and being upset about it does not automatically mean PTSD. I'm not trying to say she isn't...

@Ayesha - I just personally do not like being on them. Side effects are annoying, its annoying to have to remember to take them (which I'm terrible at), and I'd rather just not have to worry about it. I'm not saying meds are a bad thing, or that other people shouldn't take them, I just would...

I have basically the same reaction to this as Bedbug has said. Sometimes they make me smile, sometimes I hate them, but in the end I needed to hear all of them. Plus, when I'm in a really bad place I know who I can go to. I think the biggest problem I have with these reminders is that it...

Been there! Try to take it as its opening you up for a different, even better, opportunity. You just don't know about it yet. I know that's difficult. I get ticked off about my crappy parents all of the time too, for the same reasons. It also feels like they're still messing me up years later...

I think I have reacted so strongly because it seems as though he has given no thought, or at least very little, to the trauma of others and the differences in which people cope with these things. This combined with the comment about everyone being connected, is so contradictory. I agree that he...

Thanks @Abstract, I agree with you. I'm trying to be sure to keep saying things as civil as possible, and also state things like I'm not trying to attack or come at Keith, but like you have said, I'm definitely feeling a very strong response to this thread. So much so, that more than once I have...

I would be absolutely, with out a doubt, terrible at these. I've never had any experience with them. My coping has always been avoidance number one, and when that didn't work drugs, alcohol, and/or self-harm. The distraction skills work sometimes, and that typically means I do homework or clean...

@Lost Pup - A little less. As I've stated, I'm not religious, and I have no problem with someone who is, but I don't state some sort of "motto" that I believe in after every one of my posts, and from what I've read other people do not either. I have no problem with someone who says something...

Yeah this is where it feels "creepy" to me.

I think its normal for him to be scared for now. He doesn't have PTSD right now, what he has right now is just stress relating to the trauma. PTSD is the continuation of those fears, so he may be just fine. There are things that some studies have shown that minimize the chances of getting PTSD...

UGGG! NERVES! I can't concentrate at all. It's Saturday right? I'm not going to survive this week! I mean quite clearly I am, I'm just being dramatic, but REALLY, I may pass out walking into the door of the office. I know him now, I mean at least to the extent that he isn't a complete stranger...

I have lived this statement! Still trying to reverse these thoughts. More like, just now, realizing that these thoughts are so destructive. Keith, it seems you view nearly everything as trauma, and this is where I most definitely have misunderstood and gotten lost. Except for a select few...

Yes nice, but so weird. Who jumps for joy when there is something diagnosibly wrong? THIS person! Not that I want to habe things wrong with me, but it is nice when there is an answer that has a treatment other than go home and rest. Also when that treatment actually makes you feel better. And...

Oh my gosh, I have a rib that constantly pops in and out. I also hate that its on my say so. Although when followed up on enough my doctor has found things causing a big majority of the things I describe. Severe chest pain that no one could figure out we finally found blood clots in my lungs...

I'm not going to be much help. I know all about the migraines though. I went a couple years with hardly any flashbacks. This was more because I was avoiding the issue than anything else. Then I got sick with a bad infection, no clue what it was, just a really high white count and terrible...

Exactly what I was trying to say. "Avoiding" your triggers is helpful. An EXTREMELY good way to cope. I have been avoiding my triggers for years. I still avoid my triggers. For example until very recently I was SO against therapy of any kind. It triggered me, for multiple reasons. In the way...

The goal of not retriggering yourself also just sounds like another symptom of PTSD. Avoidance. It would be my goal to get to the point where my triggers no longer trigger me. Avoidance is annoying and inconvient. I am most definitely not saying I am there, not even close, but thats my goal...

Never been part of a 12 step program, but dont people typically admit fault and then apologize to others. Admitting you were at fault for your trauma is exactly the opposite of anything I have ever heard. Then to apologize to people for your trauma causing them anguish. Yeah, I do not agree...

Well, so we've been talking back and forth almost constantly through the message system. I'm going in next Friday. I super nervous. I feel like it was really fast, but I'm pretty comfortable talking to this guy. I guess I'll see what happens, if I don't pass out from nerves.

I had the cravings to self-harm, and I still get them. Alcohol, drugs even distructive behavior like speeding...I feel this is different from this: This is where I think myself and others are confused about this. Am I vulnerable, absolutely. Would I still probably fall for it, yes. Did I go...

Thank you NovemberStar for saying what I couldn't find words to say. I went back to my abusers, again and again and again. I also put myself into situations that ended up with me being abused by other people. I however, in NO way agree that this is an addiction. I don't completely understand...