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Plenty of great comments. I can only speak from my experience. I’ve found it depends on the doctor, though in general doctors are better educated about complex trauma than a couple of decades ago. If possible ask for a doctor at somewhere like a local women’s health centre or through word of...

It was by chance through my community mental health service. She’s working somewhere else now. I don’t know how easy they are to find but they definitely exist and she was so helpful

I’ve tried most groups of antidepressants, some antipsychotics and lyrica and gabapentin, but what helped me are the ones typically used for cardiac issues, initially propranolol which the GP who had been a psychiatrist in NZ put me on, it took the edge of the ANS arousal so I could utilise...

I’m similar, especially with dissociation which often means I’m not aware of my conscious thoughts and had to learn to recognise my feelings, how can one label thoughts when they’re blocked? I wasn’t diagnosed with ptsd at the time though had disclosed trauma history. DBT helped to an extent (I...

I don’t know. I asked my psychiatrist yesterday for suggestions and he’ll get back to me. I’ve had therapists with trauma experience before, in fact my first after disclosure to a safe friend was at a women’s health centre in regional QLD who specialised with sexual abuse survivors, then the old...

No guarantees and had to wait 3mths after the last left before this one came up, though I could insist on someone with at least a basic level of working experience with trauma. Given my history then having her allocated I’m really not sure though. Probably better to have no one than a therapist...

Medication aspect is that although of course it’s an adjunct and different things work for different people, but wondering how helpful people have found clonidine for hyperarousal? I’ve found propranolol very helpful before and my psychiatrist agrees it’s beneficial but doesn’t want me on it...

I’ll read through properly. I’ve had to work through a few triggering situations before with a version of exposure therapy, such as after an assault in my kitchen I was reactive just looking that way then with things to help ground/distract/manage arousal I progressively entered doorway or...

Hi. Thanks for the suggestion. There’s no buses locally and I don’t have money to pay for transport so driving was the only option. Between meds, sensory items, distraction grounding/breathing, and having nurses I feel safe with as I attended the day unit as a carer last year so know a couple of...

Hi, Short version, cptsd from childhood traumas compounded by a few as an adult, then between carer burnout and flare of ptsd (was subpoenaed to give witness victim testimony though at last minute this perp pleaded guilty without hearing so I was spared actually taking the stand) I was having...

Hey. I’m K. I refer to myself as a survivor, not a sufferer. I rarely use fb and prefer older style forums like this appears to be. I’m a survivor, ups and downs. Sometimes my symptoms are reasonably managed, other times they’re debilitating or require hospitalisation, none easy anyway...