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In a yoga class one of the teachers tried to get us to do tapping. Then it became making fists and hitting our muscles all over our body. This triggered me intensely with the noise of impact, and watching so many people willingly injure themselves ina darkened atmosphere. I tried to simply sit...

I really liked how my therapist put it last session. It basically seems to be a feedback loop that goes PTSD symptoms flare physical issues, or physical issues flare PTSD symptoms. Either way, it's rough on me.

I know this, but it's still upsetting. Said person I was talking to struggles with anxiety and depression, so I figured she'd get it more so than others. I didn't mention it to my sister or anyone else when I arrived. I called a supportive friend (this one seems to know how to handle it and is...

The thing that ticks me off the most is that it's suggestive to that I am not trying to make things better for myself. Prior to my crash, I was the one people would call when horrible crap was going on and they needed help. I was the one who would face the terrible shit for them. Because I had...

As many of you know, I was diagnosed with PTSD after a life threatening car accident with a moose. Yesterday morning I was travelling to my sisters (I don't often drive these days, so this was me pushing myself). She lives in a wooded area, so I was exercising a lot of caution and always drive...

Yeah that’s basically what I had to do. I got home, ate, showered and then set myself up on the couch in a dark room. I put on a tv show and played on my computer as tolerated. Decreasing stimulus and self care worked well. I’m slowly realizing exactly how much stress I put myself through and...

I stopped yoga because I was triggered as hell through it and I basically ended up laying there crying through the whole thing

Yeah, but not as much as I would've liked lol..when I mentioned it again the following session she told me she forgot all about it, but I was still laughing about it

It's really hard to embarrass me, but man...this is a good story. I'd been recovering from a concussion, and during this therapy session I felt my brain had used all of it's cognitive abilities, so near the end of the session, I was really starting to mix things up. I'd also been complaining...

I'm still struggling with physical pain, and have just come down from a 1-2 week weird overloaded panic dissociation state (my stress tolerance level had been exceeded by an exceptional amount and I kind of lost it for a while). But, happy to report I finally came down and have been able to...

I think being jealous when you get that intimate with someone is natural. When I worked with a personal trainer a few years back, I remember being exceptionally jealous when she spoke positively of another person's progress. She caught on and I told her that she was 'my trainer'. In part I was...

She's human and doesn't feel well. Chances are that she may be struggling to come to terms with whatever is going on for her! I would try to be thankful that she had enough respect to let you know what's going on. For now, I would consider your best interest and poke around for another...

I appreciate you coming back to this. I have just come back around from just over a week of being triggered by the landing from the plane I was on. I was flown out for a medical appointment, and the landing mimics how it felt in my accident - impact, speed and application of breaks but still...

This has literally been my life. Worker's comp keeps wanting to talk about back to work, but I know I'm not the same and I truthfully don't think it's a good idea. As soon as I try to do things physically as I used to before the accident, my body begins to produce the same pain signals in my...

Does anyone find that their symptoms intensify when they consume alcohol? I've been pretty stressed and symptomatic lately, and I had a glass of wine to help 'depress' the symptoms. Turns out I feel like it just made things worse. My chest now feels tight and I have shortness of breath, along...

you do realize that you can be intimate with friends, family members and others? Technically throughout the act of going and participating in therapy, we all are intimate with our therapists. They know us well. It is largely one sided intimacy (with a few exceptions of appropriate...

I think because I'm so good at removing emotion from people I am able to appreciate my therapist as an individual. Inside the session I can go from immense affection towards her, to shooting daggers at her with my eyes and telling her to f*ck off. We have talked about it before, and clarified...

Instead of 'like', how about swapping that word for 'respect'. I thoroughly enjoy telling people I really respect my therapist. To me, those two words are interchangeable. I actually wrote up a short apology note to her because I was quite snarly last session, and ended it with "I have...

You already know the answer. Given this post I’ve skimmed through and etc, if she dove back into the “hard stuff” before you were ready, would you stick around? Given your history, the answer is no. This is the process. It’s unhelpful to sit there and over analyze each session. There was a...

I get periodic ones for workers comp. however even those are geared to my currently wellbeing, specifically if I’m ready to discuss a return to work. ** addition to previous post** They are purposefully vague and meant to be impersonal. I recall within my work (social worker), we were told to...

All of this sounds somewhat similar to this friendship I thought I had with someone in a position where they were helping me too. She really liked me and we became “best friends”. Or so I thought. Like you, many things were in her favour, and she started saying she was the one out of balance and...

9 months post crash), and I’m still getting dizzy and terribly symptomatic. I actually just woke up (from being incredibly tired and sore - as if I spent the day digging a huge ditch), and my body is super super sore, and my anxiety/PTSD brain won’t turn off/calm down. I’m dreaming about my...

I wasn’t using chemicals at the time. I basically helped clear the back deck of snow and dog “business”, and then came in folded laundry and then moved onto the dishwasher. I have had increased stress this month, and had seen physio that morning. Given everything it has quite a bit to do with...

That’s what I wonder when workers comp keeps talking about discussing returning to work for me. I mean, if we broke out legs, no one would be encouraging us to walk on it/walk it off....

I was helping my sister clean today as she is selling her home and potential buyers are coming by again tomorrow - so we were pretty busy cleaning a lot. I didn’t feel like I did all that much, but suddenly I bent over to unload the utensils in the dishwasher and I found myself getting dizzy...