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I am sorry for your situation. I wonder if your girlfriend could not go to a psychiatrist or psych crisis intervention centre or something alike in your own neighbourhood? Why do the parents need to be involved as to come and get her? Maybe this has to do with age or insurance? Also could you...

If you do somatic experiencing you get the full package not only emotions, but your body shows you the complete re-enactment of what happened. I am glad I remembered finally all that I never knew, it explained my entire course of life. I agree and therefore you basically do not need to worry.

Sure that is ok, I never posted an introduction at all, it is not mandatory. No worries, no apologies, not silly.

Welcome back :-)

You mention seeing a horrible psychiatrist; is there a therapist you trust you could see? I am sorry for not being able to offer advice on this. Take care.

Yes, Peter Levine is the author of books on somatic experiencing: Waking the Tiger, In an Unspoken Voice. I am glad for you that you found this site, it may be very helpful for you. Take care.

To me it sounds like emotional flashbacks in which you feel and see the old situation. I am very sorry you are so scared. If you do not remember your trauma, like I did not either, a very good method is somatic experiencing, as your body remembers everything related to our past trauma's. Take care.

I noticed this and ignored without buttons. This whole thread to me is reading between the lines in how far one person should be allowed the right to make so many people feel uncomfortable on this forum. My answer is no, that person does not have that right.

Everyone who structurally dissociates -or has fragmented parts- is somewhere on the scale of DID. In the past the term multiple identity disorder was what is now called DID, but to me it is confusing. The old term referred to a person with multiple identities or alters, which is the extreme on...

Would it help you to buy clothes online? Maybe less pressure. I agree with having a plan being helpful.

I would say it is a combination of a good trauma therapist, as not every clinical psychologist is trained in trauma, and a good method or multiple methods used by one therapist. My therapy is mainly somatic experiencing and ego state therapy, and both methods are sublime imho. I am a real...

Agree for sure, in my case my therapist does all the possible suggestions, I choose and tell what I see happening next, and then he continues when I block and so on to finish the story till the end. And also to see yourself as the child -or particular ego state- and connect to it emotionally in...

I am sorry to read your message just today and that you were feeling so lost. I hope you feel slightly better today :-)

Yes, I have gone through this, mother being main abuser. The way I got the monster out of my head was by using ego state therapy, as apart from SE my therapist is trained in this method. Maybe your therapist knows of a similar technique; it is visualising in a light trance state that you now are...

Already you start to move pieces of the puzzle around and that is good. I am sure you will be glad some time that you got to know the full truth. I completely lost my ground when I remembered my stuff, almost hospitalised then. It shakes us at our core identity.

Of course it matters, it was something that gave you some sense of who you are; this happened to me at 17 you would say/think, and now it is different. It could also be that there is even more to it than you know now, as you use the words "for some reason". Maybe something did happen at 17 as...

I understand what you go through. It is very confusing stuff, but I think it is part of trauma work. During the last half year I have remembered all that happened in my first year of life, that I had absolutely no clue about. It has totally changed my life to know this; it was also the worst...

I am so sorry I did not mean to upset you even more. I wish I could help you out where you are. I hope you got that ice-cream :-) Sending you strength for today :hug:

Welcome @2narcissa.

Freudian slip? ;) I believe there is nothing more human than honest communication with someone you love. I see it as lying when you say you are great, when it is not true, but it does not make you a whiner. If you start adapting your truth to be liked, chances are you end up being a prisoner of...

These are beautiful pictures :-) They look all very sharp and today I was totally confused, so they are no match :wacky:

Take it slow, don't expect too much from yourself. Remain you, don't pretend. One step at a time. First focus on you and your health, the rest will come later. Maybe easier said and done by someone who lives quite isolated.

Reiki on yourself. Put your hands were you have the most tension.

Thank you, I am glad this was helpful for you. I am an advocate of somatic experiencing as to me it is absolutely the best therapeutic method for trauma ever. I have done 20 years of therapy prior to trauma therapy, as I only was depressed before and no one could even know I had ptsd, since I...