Search results

Killing people in dreams can represent bottled up (or not bottled up) resent at that person. Also, the kids can be representing some other resent you have, whether for yourself, certain aspects of yourself, coworkers, etc. Accidental killing can also mean a fear of messing up, fear of losing...

I suffered pretty bad physical abuse at the hands of both of my parents until I was 13 or 14, although nobody could tell from the outside. My parents were open about thinking of putting me into foster care. They would always threaten to put me into foster care, and at one point I was in foster...

Ever since I developed PTSD, I've had symptoms that are strange, irrational and seemingly unrelated to the trauma itself. The actual traumatic event was repeated childhood abuse, but sometimes I have intense flashbacks of a pleasant memory, like bowling with friends. When the abuse was going on...

A few days ago, a friend jokingly hit me with a broom, which triggered me and put me in an extremely bad mood for the rest of the day (I was abused as a young child). That night, I went to sleep brooding over the incident. I woke up in the middle of the night to find I had wet the bed. I'm...

@void There was no sexual abuse. Nobody except the abuser knows, and they act like nothing ever happened. The abuser will not react well if people start asking questions. The abuser was my parent, and they would feel betrayed for taking care of me and raising me, just to have me turn on them...

I just had my first therapy appointment, and my next one is coming up soon. At the end of the session, he asked me if I had experienced a traumatic event (yes), and that we will talk about it next time. I want to tell him about what happened. I've never told anyone before and I want to lift the...

Today was my first therapy session. My dad had to sit in for the first session, so I didn't really feel comfortable talking about flashbacks and traumatic events and things of the such. We were talking about symptoms and somehow we started talking about flashbacks and he thinks I probably don't...