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The answer to both your questions is certainly yes. Obviously everyone must be treated with dignity and respect regardless, I was making a reference to scenarios such as the one I witnessed in a grocery store when I was working as a cashier. I was serving customer 1, who happen to be the only...

I try to avoid engaging in mind-reading, but as others have mentioned, there are many valid reasons for asking a client to come more often. I would take it as a good sign. If nothing else it means that the therapist is really invested in you doing well and is committed to your progress. I...

Sounds like it went well. When you say he "wrote down" SSRIs, do you mean he suggested some SSRI medications that your GP might prescribe to you? That's also a good sign, that he's involving your other doctors in this process. Personally I think it's great when a therapist tries to network with...

Good for you. Smart choice to take some time to chill out before you decide how to respond to this. Sorry to be blunt but while those things are irritating they are nowhere near worth having a total meltdown over. I consider myself more tolerant than most and to be totally candid I feel a little...

Dear, just leave it alone. Don't say anything in response and eventually the fire will burn itself out. Blaming you could just be their own way of coping. Disdain is easier than grief. As you said, it is a small community, and maybe they are just not able to come to grips with the fact that...

Well, the first question would be what stresses or triggers might be going on in your life right now? I'm dealing with heightened levels of anxiety, not because I feel threatened or overwhelmed, but because I feel intensely bored. I'm doing pretty much nothing with my life at the moment while I...

At the urging of a good friend of mine, I asked my therapist how I can have good dreams, not just not have nightmares. She suggested something she referred to as "sleep hygiene." She suggested a glass of milk and maybe a cookie, told me to wait 20 minutes between getting off my computer and...

Scrabble with yourself? I will definitely try that ;)

That's great to hear. I was pretty depressed when I realized I wasn't going to be able to finish my B.A. in four years, but I'm sure there are upsides to having a longer undergraduate career, even if I can't see them. Kudos for your success and I'm confident you're going to have a great life.

Even if you have nothing to say in response, I think you should read this anyway as there is a valuable lesson to be learned from it. So, this guy has the hots for me. He's stopped me a couple times as we cross paths rather frequently on the campus although we don't actually have any classes...

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Communicate with your T about what you are experiencing and let him help you with the collateral of recovery as well as the process in of itself. Make a solid plan with him for what to do right after you leave a therapy session. I know that was always the most precarious time for me during the...

I don't care who's side you are fighting on, no one deserves to live through PTSD without any help. In this situation especially it is the cruelest of diseases because it robs the next generation of a chance for a new life by refusing to let the past be what it is. I am glad to hear that there...

Think positive and pick the right time. Don't go off your medications when you're in the midst of a lot of stress. Create a fail safe environment for yourself. Definately keep in close contact with your doctor. Don't hesitate to contact him/her if you feel something isn't quite right. It may...

Ya, my therapist once described that as a gambling addiction. He told me I had a gambling addiction to my father. I continued to go back to him looking for acceptance and validation even though he repeatedly burned me because of the few chance occasions where I did get the validation that I...

What you're experiencing is completely normal. I know that my first few weeks of real therapy, I was a complete nervous wreck. I often tell people of how I seriously considered not eating anything on the days I had my therapy sessions because I would sit in the waiting room seriously feeling...

This might me of "get her before she gets me." Your attack came from two people you knew and trusted. Beneath the trust, care, and affection you have for this girl, your subconscious brain may still be telling you "Watch out!" It is a primal instinct that effected me in some very subtle yet very...

Come to think of it, I don't think I've met a single person who likes valentines day

I hope you are feeling better today Brazen. Sometimes the best medicine is just to crawl into bed and pretend the day never happened.

I think lying is more a symptom of low self esteem than anything else. Being honest sometimes means acknowledging your shortcomings, which is hard for me personally at times because I'm afraid of how people will react to them.

I grew up in a family full of people who were carrying their own burdens around from long legacies of abuse and trauma. I was the youngest and smallest person in the family so everything ultimately got taken out on me. This was when I was a child, so I have been a scapegoat, majorly. PTSD is...

Oh Bluefighter, I've had horrendous counseling experiences as well; a lazy psychaitrist, a loudmouth nurse, a therapist who broke confidentiality, another who threatened me with hospitalization unless I told my mother I was feeling suicidal while she listened in over the phone, a subservient...

Don't use the word "should," it doesn't do any good. Circumstances do not decide whether you are happy or not, you do. You probably need some help with it, but happiness comes from the inside out, not the other way around. Are there counseling services at your college? I know the counseling...

It sounds like your "supporter" has some issues of his own. I think you handled this confrontation as well as anybody could have. Life presents its frustrations no matter who we are and what we have lived through. I wish I could go to Paris to, I wish I could go to a lot of places, but money has...

Thank you for your service to your fellow man. Yours is a truly Christ like sacrafice. Please PM me anytime you want to talk about anything you want.