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Real quick because I've got to go! I missed about 5 minutes of T talking today. I could see her talking but none of it registered. Before this kind of thing happens I usually laugh a little and smile (involuntarily) and then it's like my brain checks out but I can still see and hear. I did tell...

Sounds like a lucky woman (to have you be so committed to her). I hope she realizes she needs help and gets it. I did and did. I am so thankful for my husband that he continues to stick by me through my ups and downs. I know it's hard on him.

Perfect analogy Klo. :)

Didn't even notice til you mentioned it :)

Friday, Your so right about everyones scale being different. Different things effect people in different ways. When it comes to ptsd I think the hardest part is the symptoms that stem from the trauma... otherwise it isn't ptsd, right? And we all have those symptoms. Lucky, That's what I'm...

I would say my big trauma is from abandonment, complete physical and emotional abandonment by my adoptive parents that eventually left me homeless with noone to turn to as a teen. My smaller traumas would probably never have happened if this big trauma hadn't happened. The smaller ones are in...

I am so sorry you had that as a therapy experience. It's unacceptable and horrible. I am simply appalled. I'm sure with the right therapist, this brainwashing will be able to be undone and you'll be able to work through your original traumas.

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Early on I was diagnosed with mood disorder nos ( pretty much rapid cycling bipolar). I'm glad to have an accurate dx now. It helps me understand that I'm not crazy. I'm also able to explain to the people that matter why I act the way I do sometimes. People tend to have more compassion when they...

My T said I do "magical thinking" the other day because I want to go back and fix it for the little me who was. But she says I can't time travel. It's true but I still want to go back and change it and make it ok again. :(

I've never had this happen before and it was very scary. I'm not sure if it was dissociation or flashback or a combination. I recently started working with a new therapist and it has been causing all kinds of emotional upheavals along with some emotional "numbing" and mild dissociation. What...

Just wanted to say, I've thought the same thing about the toys in my new therapists office. :)

Welcome to the forums dreesieblues. I'm sure you'll find a lot of support here.

I just checked out one of the welbutrin threads. It sounds like it 's beneficial to many! Thanks. :)

Uhg. I'm sorry to hear that. :( I'll have to ask him if there are any medications that target that as well.

Hi, I hope you're doing well.:) I was just reading your post response about welbutrin and hoping it would help with your memory. Mine is awful too. Forgetting what people just said, forgetting what I just said and repeating it, making to do lists them forgetting where I put them. It's so...

I would not recommend it. Ditto on the awful "brain zaps. Not to mention they also would happen to me if I missed a dose or two. I took it a long time ago. Must have been before people reported that side effect because the doctor had no idea what I was talking about when I told him. If I...

I do occasional burst and tapers of prednisone. I haven't really seen much as far as increased symptoms with it but I'll have to keep that in mind next time, it's possible I just didn't put the 2 together.

I learned a simple technique years ago that helped with my most disturbing intrusive thoughts, the "I want to die" thoughts and unwanted visuals of how I would do it - even when really I wasn't suicidal! I think it's called stop thought. All you do is say out loud or in your head "Stop" EVERY...

We have to take care of ourselves, we're really quite fragile whether we want to admit it or not. I think it's only fair, if we expect someone else to support us, that we are seeking the appropriate help outside of the relationship. I think it's good that you left a toxic relationship - she...

In person, I just want my hubby to hold me when I'm crying. He doesn't usually say much but when I'm done we usually talk about what happened to bring the "crying jag" on - but we've been married for 12 years. I'm on the depressed side right now and waiting to get in to see my p-doc. I'm...

What you're experiencing is very normal. And even though you can't tell your story yet, you are helping by letting other people who are suffering through this know that their symptoms are normal too. I know it's hard to remember this when depression hits so hard and the world goes to black and...

Is he getting help as well? Medication, therapy, etc? One of the things I recently learned in therapy is that I need to learn to catch myself and not HAVE to have someone else always be there to do it for me.

I have no memory of sexual abuse but have been told that there was preverbal. That said, I had overly sexualized behavior at a relatively young age similar to yours. They do bring me shame and I've never told anyone about them other than the time when I was about 8 or 9 and I tried to "seduce" a...

It's weird... when I get really stressed out I'll find that days have gone by without me bathing. Sometimes even brushing my hair. I don't even realize it until my hair gets stringy or greasy or really tangled. I just completely forget. Sometimes I also forget to eat. I somehow get the kids fed...