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Thanks. It's just that I really do not feel comfortable having her read all my posts or commenting on them. I need the space for myself. I would find some other way to bring up the subject - mention a list of things that may have affected her that she might want to bring to the attention of her...

Yes, I know all about these. I have explained some of the difficulties with access in my other posts. I have found a therapist who is starting a support group specifically for people who have bee arrested during protests who have PTSD symptoms. The local clinic systems (CLSCs) offer free therapy...

Carharjo. I think maybe because you have a sense of gratitude to police because of what you experienced - I have read all your postings and thanks for replying to mine - that the feeling of safety you expereinced has become a powerful emotional bond. I think it might be psychologically dangerous...

Reply to Carharjo -- Good news!!! I just got an e-mail a few minutes ago from a member of the group that I was kettled with - for those who do not know this term, it is when police at a protest herd the protestors and make them sit in the street or in another space and keep them there as many...

I have some PTSD symptoms after experience I had last fall but lately I am dreaming about my ex. I was psychologically held in a relationship with a man with sociopathic tendencies - a compulsive liar and manipulator. I realize now that I might have had stockholm syndrome or still have it...

I wanted to reply to Franciemarnie - I will look for the book you recommended, A Different Voice by Peter Levine. I finding reading is helpful since I can not pay for thereapy right now. I am reading a book called: What Doesn't Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth by Stephen...

Carharjo, forget what I said about printing out your message to show to my daughter. I forget sometimes how easily people can find forums and things and I do not really want her to be part of this forum discussion. I will only tell her in the most vague general terms that I have read something...

Yes!!! It was. Would it be okay for me to share what you have written with her? I will not do so if it bothers you and I do not even have to include your name- I would just print it out and tear off the name and the forum. But I won't even do this much without your okay. She has never spoken to...

Thank you so much! You even are from the same city or you know which police I am talking about!! That is SO amazing and you seem to really understand. I found out that I can get on a waiting list at the CLSC (I think you know what that is) for 12 sessions of free therapy but I do not know if...

I am sorry you experienced this. About seven years ago my daughter was attending college where there was a school shooting. A man with untreated mental health issues shot many students and killed one. My daughter had been planning to go to the computer room not long before the shooting began. It...

If you read my last Sat, post about my non-eligibility for therapy you will read the following: "I have some symptoms of PTSD..." I corrected myself because it was pointed out that I do not have the expertise to diagnose myself. But it seems that nothing I say is quite good enough and I...

I am just letting people know that I have found a new forum which I hope will better meet my needs. I will still post to support others here but not to find support for myself as I will look for support on the other forum.

Maybe this is not the forum for me. I am not getting the support I was looking for, except from Sheila. I am not trying to invalidate ANYONE by saying I felt psychologically raped. I felt violated on a psycholgical level by what I experienced. I am not invalidating anyone who has experienced...

The only way I would be eligible for free psychotherapy is if I had been assaulted by some one who is not a police officer while I was not doing anything in violation of a municipal by-law. Sometimes these "illegal" demos are allowed to take place without the cops intervening. None of us...

Crayon, I also have DID. This was diagnosed years ago and I had a psychiatrist then who was very Freudian and wanted me to lie on a couch and was totally silent - the classic old style psychiatrist. He had some helpful things to say when I asked specific questions. He was the only one in my city...

I would like to respond to Sheila Kathy as this is the most supportive thing I have read in response to my first participation. For the rest of you this is the situation. I am on social assistance. There is no money or insurance available to pay for a trauma specialist. I live in an area where...

At first I had symptoms for a few days. I read that this was normal but not really PSTD, For a long time I did not think very much about what had happened. This is a summary: There was an environmental protest and about 150 people participated. There seemed to be almost as many police there as...

Hi EM C I am new here and yours is the first post I am responding to as I can relate to it. I having similar symptoms. Getting enough sleep is essential. Today my family doc prescribed amitryptaline which I have taken before in lose dose to help with sleep. There are things like B-vitamins that...