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Tell me about it. I can’t even handle a genuine compliment.

I have suspicions that I had some form of Cptsd from childhood stuff, before my current stuff confirmed a bunch of compounded ptsd stuff and exploded my symptoms into extreme levels. But, in saying that I remember the only way I would be able to fall asleep was making up scenarios in my head as...

That’s what I mean. I refuse to speak. If I tell her something before any type of trust has formed, it’s all shit I can deny or that is “surface”

sounds like a call you'll have to make for yourself

I really like my therapist. I think she's a great person, and if I hadn't met her in the context I did, I'd imagine we'd likely be friends to some degree. I've been seeing her for a year now, and as hard as I try, my trust issues are so severe that I can't bring myself to tell her much. Progress...

You can keep it simple AND explain why. You could say something like, "As you know, PTSD is hard on a person. It is even harder when unmanaged. As I've mentioned to you before, I am concerned about your symptoms and the fact that you are unwilling to seek treatment for it. I have a hard enough...

I think that's a worry that anyone would have. Moving is overwhelming and scary, as is having an empty nest. When I moved (locally) I didn't feel right until I was well settled in. The adjustment period is much longer for me. But, rather than thinking negatively...perhaps this change could bring...

Back to commenting about the original post, I know I have severe trust issues. My therapist has informed me that I have/had an avoidant attachment with my parents. So, in session we work on safety and security. Also, I'm not sure if this just a just me type thing but the way we work on...

Do you have a picture of it, or need to ask questions? I learned how to do these in school. Providing your therapist didn’t ask for something extra, feel free to ask me

Did you figure out how to do this? It’s actually super easy

I’m angry that I had to pretend for so long, and that some people now are trying to encourage me to “let it go” because it’s “in the past”. It’s exceptionally harder when the person saying it is genuinely trying to be a good support for you. It’s not my choice to keep myself in distress. It is...

My therapist has commented that I am really good at making it look like I have my sh*t together. It's funny because I even confuse myself a lot of the time of whether I am actually not doing well, or if this is something I can handle on my own. I've always been invalidated and taught to diminish...

Sounds like it shook you up because it's confirming how shitty things have been for you. Trauma does awful things to us beyond the actual traumatizing act. Lame, I know. I recently had my spell of sobbing away about something someone said to me, so I get it. Feel it, and let it go.

today I was driving with a plan in mind of what I was going to do (I.e. stop at the store and withdrawl some cash to pay the dog groomer). While in the vehicle heading to the store, I thought about something else for a split second, and when I came back I was confused about where I was going and...

I bounce my legs. At home, I've also noticed sometimes my muscles will jerk into tension when I'm feeling emotional/anxious

So this is exactly what I just explained to my therapist. For me, I call them 'casualties'. Rather than being friends and having nothing but positive experiences with her (by friends I mean that if I didn't need a therapist I wouldn't have had to meet her professionally and we could've become...

Mine tries to be sneaky and include exposure/desensitization in sessions whenever she can. 1) to see how I react (which helps guide my treatment), and 2) because if she openly disclosed we were doing exposure, I straight up refuse. I will sit there in silence. One time I was severely triggered...

Unless I magically wake up tomorrow and have no recollection of this messy night, that is my plan. I don’t intend to do my exercises either. I know it’s only harming me, but whatever. I don’t feel worth it, and it’s reallt hard for me to muster the will to do it alone - hence why I started...

Because worker’s comp is the one that approves it, it’s complicated. I feel like I’m being a bother, as I’ve already made a stink to physio about it. If I really pressed it, it seems like she’d apply for twice a week again but now I just feel like a bother. Right now I want to stop everything...

Therapist is out of town for a week here and there this month, and I was supposed to not see her this week, have an appt the following, and then she was supposed to be off again. I am not dependant on her, but the last session we had, I FINALLY opened up a little and am now actually interested...

I've experienced both. When too many thoughts of possible answers flood, I can usually "see" them passing by in my brain and can collect a word or two to describe it. Then I will occasionally start stammering out some sounds in an effort to verbalize them. Then, my brain literally is blank. It's...

DBT skills are great for emotion regulation, distress tolerance and etc. These will be the coping skills you use while working on your trauma. it may be 'common sense', but to have the be truly effective they need to be practiced regularly. I always talk about how I feel like I've rifled through...

yep. sounds like me too. I will be posed a question, of my therapist will be explaining something and then wait for my response, but I have none. I often fall silent and she has to stay on some question for a few minutes (even repeating it) before I can muster an answer, if any. The other day...

Depending on the context of how she worded it, what a stupid thing to say. If her goal was to get you to see what happened was severe, she could have done a better job.

What I experienced didn't equate to the scale of symptoms you're talking about, but I one night a friend explained the events of a car accident to me that another friend of her's was involved in. I was totally fine, but then suddenly I started getting this pain in my chest (left side - heart)...