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Thanks for the responses! @Casey_03 So why didn't she say so? I'm just supposed to know to do this? She knows I'm on the Autism spectrum and need to be guided in social and professional interactions. With my T, I ask him what's available with a specific time requirement and he tells me and I...

I had an appointment with a state-paid Psy. D today. My second session with her. The first one was ok, although I think I inadvertently triggered her asthma (dog hair all over me). I'm not a fan of women therapists, but the state is paying for a fixed number of sessions with her, so I'll try...

Its weird, I was at a disability assessment at a doctor's office, and they were testing my range of motion in various joints. The nurse told me I look like a ballerina (never done ballet, just a martial art that's based on kicking), and I almost told her "you should have seen me BEFORE my body...

Yeah, trying to stop thoughts never worked for me. Just led to patterns of denial, dissociation, and the like which lead to WORSE intrusive thoughts and rumination! I found it best to follow a thought to its full conclusion then let it go, or let myself think the thought while paying attention...

My mother and her best friend did this a lot. My mom still does, but I've countered that so much she doesn't try it much anymore. I grew up in a Christian cult, so religion tends to be a trigger for me. I don't tolerate that behavior at all anymore, and have been known to be very rude and curt...

The Baby-sitter's Club series are awesome too! And I loved Beverly Cleary!! @Friday and @Allie D. y'all have great taste in literature...all my fave's too!

I obsessed about my T pretty hard in the beginning. The more I got stuff taken care of, the less I obsessed. Also, the more I allowed myself to experience the obsession, not acting on any impulses, but just feeling the feelings, the obsession got weaker and weaker until a healthy connection took...

OMG, yes, I'm always tight. Massage therapists have told me I need 2-3 appts. a week for about 6 months just to make any progress. Every muscle in my body is constantly clenched, to the point of damage now. It has always been this way for as long as I can remember. Like @SophiaWisdom said, being...

I'm a huge fan of Walter Farley and Marguerite Henry. They wrote "Black Stallion" series and "Misty of Chincoteague" series, respectively. Those were great books for me as a horse-crazy kid. I also loved The Berenstein Bears and have picked up collecting those again. Really loved the "Chronicles...

Stupid phone... I switched to bio-identical thyroid replacement prescriptions and felt so much better! But supply kept getting disrupted, and I soon lost my access to doctors who would prescribe that blend, so I had to look for a non-prescription thyroid replacement. Found one, both porcine and...

I was Dx'd with hypothyroid when I was 16, and I'm now 34. Took levothyroxine for a couple of years, but the side effects were horrendous. I switched to bio-identical thyroid hormone prescroptions

Welcome to my world...that hit me suddenly about two years ago, complete with blue lips. After ruling out immediate physical reasons, anti-anxieties now keep my lips from turning blue but I still haven't been able to return to my previously VERY active lifestyle. It sucks, I hate it, and I never...

One of the benefits of starting training of a new dog while still working the old dog is, the old dog will teach the new dog his job much faster. I've seen this with my current pack, I adopted a 2 yr old GSD last year, and started rehabbing him (he's from a traumatic background as well, have...

Dog language is primarily body/gesture/facial expression based, so picking up hand signals is pretty easy for dogs. They just have to learn the association with the wanted action. I am on the Autism Spectrum as well as having PTSD, so there are times I just won't talk for whatever...

Sure, stick around...no one here counts posts! Seriously, I joined over 10 years ago, and I went literally 3 years where I didn't post a thing...read some, but didn't post. I tend to disappear for days, weeks, months, years on end, but I keep coming back because we are all here doing the same...

After that wonderful thread in the anonymous forum (Sex with Therapist) I realized I has some similar issues to work through with my T. He had actually brought up this issue during a recent session, and I had dissociated so badly he had to ground me before I could leave that day. Thanks to that...

This is why personal friends don't make good therapists, and vice-versa. I know it works for some people, but generally speaking, its best for your therapist to not be a personal friend before-hand. Just makes the therapeutic process easier. Of course, if that's all you can get then go with...

I feel you on this one. I tend to shut down completely when accosted in such a fashion. My retired Service Dog is a 120# black furry beast, so very few people got near us, but I did have several anxious managers hounding me and my big dog (owner-trained, but a natural for the work). This big dog...

Yup. When I first started seeing my T, his comment was something like, "You dissociate, hard, at the drop of a hat!" I did, and still do to a certain extent. Its one of the biggest reasons we can't do EMDR right now. The current strategy is to recognize when I'm dissociating and pay attention to...

Happened to me last session...room started spinning as soon as he pressed a triggering issue. I dissociated so badly that session, he had to ground me before he'd let me leave. Thankfully I don't get too embarrassed about dissociating in front of T, that's how he knows he's on a good subject...

I've learned its much easier to tell them upfront about my Dx's and how these appointments are difficult for me. My last visit to a PCP, i just flat-out told her (a new doc to me) that I was an Aspie with PTSD, so go slowly. She did, it was one of the first times a doctor has ever asked...

I researched the hell out of things, and self-diagnosed about 12 years ago. I never claimed the Dx, however, I did seek help in various places. It was only recently I was able to get formal diagnoses (also on the Autism spectrum, and have a cognitive disorder to boot!) so now I can officially...

This is part of the process....its what you pay them to do. The hope is that eventually you can internalize the grounding process and do it yourself, with only minimal guidance from T. But until that happens, they're earning their pay. You actually are in a better place than some people who JUST...