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Maybe she is a Thetan. Her approach might work for Thetans.

There is "light" dry cat food that also helps with hairballs. I don't know if this is good for them but it seems to make them happy and I for some reason fell like it's good for their digestion. Maybe you could google if it helps for hairballs, I could be totally wrong here... I grow some...

Tired, confused, worried, scared that doctors (appointments next week) will suddenly start acting like my family did 40 years ago and totally minimize my issues

Thank you for posting this here, @Cashew; lots of us born/living in countries that have been stable for our lifetimes have a lot of trouble really trying to put ourselves in the shoes of the (hundreds of millions?) of people who aren't; many members of the news media in my country seem to...

@Stickler -- we are all very glad that you survived it to be here now, esp. now that there are better resources for healing out there than there were years ago. A lot of people also have types of dissociation called "derealization" and "depersonalization". We can dissociate connection to being...

Can you write a bit of this? Maybe show your T what you wrote here, or a part of it or something like it? Writing outside of therapy where the human is sitting there, is much easier for some of us, if dissociation is going on in certain ways.

So, she isn't keeping up with research on issues related to PTSD, but lots of other things too, I bet. I guess she hasn't even read all the research stating that "somatic" problems are not under conscious control. I have sympathy for the people she sees who have those problems...

This is just my personal reaction, but my gut sense of Dr. Phil has always been that he has some compassion, but also a little boy part that is too young to really have compassion and yells "ME ME ME"!

I hope that you can find good therapists near you! My not-very-scientifically-based sense from reading this site for a while is that people on this site from some parts of the UK have had a harder time finding good help within the NHS than folks in, say, the Netherlands... The Netherlands has...

Hello @aw97. I am very sorry for all you have been through. Your posting certainly makes sense. Many of us feel like our traumas weren't "bad enough" for a long time... Also, the criteria for what can cause ptsd in children are different from adult trauma criteria, and symptoms are often...

Oh no! Any chance that you can switch doctors? Doctors who are at all good scientists will understand that their profession has yet to understand everything under the sun. They should be willing to at least entertain the possibility... You don't want a doctor who disbelieves your report; many...

Well, just a guess, but feelings of physical uncleanness can be related to traumas of various sorts.

It's true that a lot of us have never done the "fight" reflex sorts of things. For me, seeing the result of my brother physically attacking everyone in the family at one time or another provided strong motivation to try to figure him out and not repeat that. Also violence was counter-productive...

I can relate! I'm fortunate enough to be able to keep a job with benefits, too; I know some folks have to try to do this on the tiny disability-like programs that their countries offer, if that. I really really value keeping my job... I think my brain has seen it as a survival tool, correctly...

I'm very sorry that your partner cannot see his way to work toward better health, @Mallaky . Some people have both Asperger's and another issue. For instance, there are "personality disorders". A lot of people who have those are never diagnosed with them because the people do not see those...

Thank you for these posts; I have been feeling exhausted recently too esp. after chunks of processing. I am used to exercise being my main cure-all but it's only partly helping. Maybe exercise but also being sure to get enough sleep! (I don't do that last part so well.) Exercise helps the brain...

Thoughts and feelings but no attempts, including very strong feelings as a kid. The "dissociative parts" cognitive/model approach helps me figure things out better now; my adult part has for many years actually worked to include positive things in my life that I feel responsible for (like...

Some thoughts on the OP occurred to me based upon what I've been reading on a model/theory called "structural dissociation". In this model, there are "ANP" -- almost normal parts -- and "EP"s, one or more separated-off emotional parts holding the trauma -- in some of us who have this, esp. from...

39, today. I've tried this test a couple of times and the wording of questions hits me differently each time. Maybe there just aren't good words for differences in really basic experience of reality and self. I think that's part of why I never connected words like "derealization" to my...

This article seems relevant; the authors are in the U.S. Maybe googling their names would provide more info on their latest work. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175378/

It doesn't sound like these folks would have been the most helpful; the consultant didn't give you any of the names that would help you research it... @Lucycat posted a site that seems good. I was looking over research on PNES and there are loads of studies during the last few years, not a ton...

When they say "psychological", they don't mean nonexistent or made up; there is research showing that the connectivity between brain regions is altered in PNES. You can google "PNES" and ptsd to find some research. The "Epilepsy" medications are strong substances & can actually harm you, but...

Hello Vamshi, there are many types of therapy that have been helpful for different people with PTSD from complex trauma. Craniosacral therapy has been very good for some people, I believe, and a calming practitioner who is trustworthy would be important for all therapies. I also know people who...

Dead Link Removed The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see BySarahKaplanNovember24at4:48AM "One explanation, that B.T. was “malingering,” or lying about her disability, was disproved by an EEG test. When B.T. was in her two blind states, her brain showed none of the...

I will be thinking of you and hoping for your speedy recovery from this.