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Take special care of you. Hot Tea, soft warm blankets, all the things you like to smell or touch. Maybe watch a good movie... great work... wow.

Btw I can relate to all if the things you say about writing and also being tired all the time. Processing trauma emotions is very tiring. Pace yourself and take special care of you. For me Tea, scented creams and candles, soft blankets, minted natural lip balm, hot barh or shower, cuddling...

Yes triggers triggers everywhere lol. Wow I am sorry for you experiences at the hands of psychopaths and how deep it cuts when it's your parents :(..... wow your mother's comments hurt even to hear, no your not a horse and neither do horses need to be "broken" either. They can be seduced into...

Yes some would be projecting, some concern. Certainly not trying to piss you off but may end up doing so because this is a challenge to your situation, so I get that. 10 years ago was coerced into a "relationship" with a counselor which was extremely unhealthy, he had a pattern of doing this...

Husband your therapist .... alarm bells set off for me right there. That doesn't sound like you would be able to fully be yourself in that scenario as it gives too much power to someone else to define you (on the unhealthy boundaries list). The good part was moving back to a place you love. You...

Nice !! True. .. some times feelings are so powerful we loose sight. But it's awesome when it passes and a smile eeks out or a giggle or even just relief for a moment

Can I ask you a potentially painful question. Would you be willing to stop talking suicide or at a minimum reduce it to one or 2 references in a counselling session? Do you think you could possibly discuss this with him or even a new T? Do you think you might be using suicide ideation in order...

As you can see am in a very low place right now. I hope that I will feel it has all been worth it soon. And I plan on going back to work hell or high water end if this year because I absolutely hate this scenario and I believe I gained many positive benefits from working including being social...

Mine has in the past 23 years. Whilst I can see that I don't dissociate as much I don't live in roles as much and I am stronger. I am also exhausted, depressed as i need to sleep too much, I am highly irritable, difficulty concentrating, and isolating, even moving is harder, I used to feel so...

So sorry that this happened to you, that must have been terrifying. I completely understand why you would want it to be your fault, then you would feel some level of control... But remember that today, you have control, back then you didn't so be kind to yourself, listen to your inner fears...

Take things slowly. Be happy to be friends and take your time, your feeling ok is really important. Love isn't feeling out of control... its feeling cherished just the way you are, and you need respect, time, patience and just take things slow... reassure yourself that you have time... don't be...

SnowJo: be kind to yourself. My daughter really suffered for last 2 years of school from anxiety and panick attacks, she was exhausted all the time. I felt bad, I was not always equiped to handle it, as I have C-PTSD, but you know what I backed her, and I just reminded her she's awesome and...

Yes rage . The volcano in my head doesn't happen anymore. Now I get very angry and I can get stuck there for a while, and it paints my world a different tone, but it's my reaction to feeling invisible, unloved, persecuted, threatened, all old stuff. Today its about recognizing that I have been...

You are worth fighting for! You can do it! Ensure you breathing deeply into your stomach, slowly to calm yourself in public places... I found to deal with people I needed to learn how to physically hold myself... I sit with the hard parts of my body towards the person I do not face my heart and...

keeping talking to us! It will get better! I know the hell you are feeling, you are not alone... fight back! Happiness is possible, walk through this shit to get there... fight to live and you will get to experience joy again I promise!

That's the way it was for me in my teenage years... and the rage would come out as tears... Rage therapy might help... just need to find the right therapist... Also sometimes I needed to imagine my story was someone elses... imagine then how would I feel about what happened to that child, what...

hey can you point me to that research please of "brain scans of people reliving their trauma shows a shutdown in the left brain and parts of the frontal cortext)" as I want to discuss this with my current therapist as she is abnormalising what is happening for me when I am re-experiencing some...

in response.. yes 1. Are we born with the capacity to love that transcends our learned dysfunction? yes, a way of coping 2. Are attachment issues a dysfunctional place that we go to that becomes a barrier to our innate 'love place' that we are born with? yes can be, but also developed as way of...

Wishing your heart the best

Mr Laurie, I am looking forward to chatting again, I feel very angry that you had such a shitty childhood, and I just can't imagine what you experienced in war times. The Courts are an ass, ok sure you need to deal with some things, but you are their father and you will always be their father...

I recomend you get a proper Service dog, not a rescue. You would need to be a pack leader to maintain a healthy relationship with a dog, and if you are struggling with PTSD, you need to be sure you can be a pack leader for the dog, or you put both of you at risk. There are PTSD trained service...

True that. :-). You're awesome Ground Crew! make me feel real to hear you say that, like yes it was crappy and its ok to have a bit of a rant about it.

I want to kick the shit out of him for you!. I cry inside for you and wish I someone had protected you. I hate the fact that you felt bad the next day! I feel Angry that you were left alone to suffer this! I hope you know that HE HAD NO RIGHT TO DO THAT! and you wer a beautiful innocent child...

I am starting to think that counselling can be detrimental when they "abnormalise" my experiences and my sense of self... Milton Erickson wrote many articles complaining that the the medical profession often either kept people sick, or sometimes added to the problems by "looking down on the...

I understand this in so many ways! Your on to it. I found though I needed to remember not to carry it constantly as that sadness wants to be soothed and wants to experience joy too :)