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I honestly love the disconnected feeling. I am on meds now that have stopped it but part of me missed it. I used to be able to shut off feelings at will too, that was somewhat useful. I guess what I'm saying is that emotionally shutting down and feeling foggy is dissacociation and a PTSD...

Therapist are people. Not all therapist are good at their job, not all of them will fit with you, and not all of them should treat trauma. I also want to make two points for you to consider. The first is boundaries. No one, not a therapist, not a lover, not the president, has the right to make...

Ok. thanks for the answers. I am hoping it helps both of us. I just didn't want to move forward if someone had an experience where this went really badly or at least we could add some safe guards.

I am not sure if this should be here or in relationships but I think here makes more sense. My sister and I are close in age and grew up with the same crazy mother. I have been talking with her about my therapy lately and encouraging her to go for herself. In our talks we've realized that we...

I have dissociative amnesia but it's not the only way I dissacociate. When I lose longer periods of time I seem to just sit in one spot and that can be longer than an hour. Other times I will lose a few moments of what I am doing. I am trying to embrace the extra ideas that I get from them...

They need you. You know that and everyone agrees. I know that sometimes I think "why am I struggling through all of this just to exist for other people's needs?" You can't just hang around because they need you. I would bet a lot of money that they love and enjoy you too though :) Talk and...

I dissacociate. I always have in certain times and honestly I assumed everyone did until recently. Lately I've been more fragmented than usual and it's been interfering with my life. Part of this newer experience has been conversations in my head. Not auditory hallucinations, but people in my...

Talk to your T. I was dissacociation and having trouble determining what I dreamed and what I'd really done. This sounds similar to me. Like your brain is storing dream memories as real ones or vice versa.

Thanks everyone. I've been told, since June, that I have PTSD. It took a few medical opinions for me to belive them. The reason I even went to a therapist to begin with is because I started losing chunks of time in my memory. Basically I've been told that I was coping how I'd been since...

My boyfriend mentioned my cycle too lol. This may be TMI but I'm irregular and have been for more than a year (I've been to my GYN for that) So I never know if that's an issue until after the fact. Still it's possible.

It was a psychiatrist that gave me the Rx. Emotional flooding makes sense and I can try grounding with them. I use that to help with dissacociation. It had just gotten so bad that I wasn't getting stuff done like I need to in order to live/work. I have never tried it for emotions though. I...

I have PTSD and trouble with sex. I've never been sexually abused. For some reason it's like I can't understand d how sex and love go together. If I am not really into someone then I can have sex. I was the queen of one night stands in my younger years. Once I find someone I really care about...

So I haven't been on here in a while. I got my PTSD diagnosis less than a year ago and I've been trying to wrap my head around it. Anyway, this week my doc gave me Xanax (3 times a day) to help me stop dissacociation so much. I started it yesterday. I have been more anxious. This morning I...

I've been gone for a while but I wanted to chime in here. I wonder all of the time what my therapist thinks. I emailed him yesterday to see if I could schedule a phone session due to my lack of time this week. He hasn't answered yet so I've spent 24 hours wondering if he thinks it was a dumb...

I have been thinking about writing in a journal for a while. I have dumped these emotions on innocent bystanders a couple of times, strangers not family. I thought that if I wrote them down and tried to figure out where they're coming from that I might not be so rude in public. I am also...

I agree. I am still processing things. Thank you for saying that I'm doing well. I've been trying to schedule stuff to do and I feel better at the time. I just feel like there should be something to do with these emotions. I don't know if that makes sense. It's like I will be really angry but no...

Last year I lost my job but did find another. Within days of the jobs loss my ex started up a custody battle. During the custody battle my daughter was at the doctor a lot as she was getting diagnosed with a genetic condition (not life threatening and it's under control now). My ex used her...

I have started taking a few but not every day. It's hard to start a new habit.

I have asked a doctor and my therapist, I just didn't want to ask the public like here. They weren't much help. I've been telling myself it's anxiety so I am going to go with that and see if it eases up as I learn more relaxation stuff.

I disassociate, that's not new. What is new is a "blinking" feeling or jerky type thing. I am having a really hard time explaining it and I don't like the way it feels. Sometimes I feel like there is a "glitch in the Matrix" or like time is jumping, less than a second per jumpy feeling. Once...

Are you in counseling for yourself?

Yeah I'm on guard all the time too. Lately I have started waking up prepared to fight whatever noise is around, for many years I would be able to sleep through sounds. I doubt I'm sleeping well right now. He would like me to relax past that point at least. I'm glad I'm not the only one that...

Your therapist is always going to be limited support, unfortunately. How do you feel about putting off therapy until you get to the other state?

Ok. You need to take some of the weight off of you. Can your husband do more for a while when he's not at work? Can you take a little time off from school? I will tell you what my therapist told me. If all of this truly breaks you then you won't be any help to anyone any way. You need to find...

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