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I'm not sure if this helps or not at all, but I have to look for a new therapist as well. I plan on asking if they are TRAINED to handle trauma. I insist they have their license. I plan on asking what their treatment plan is, how often they make goals and how many times they check against those...

I can switch the tracks with effort. Sometimes I can remember at least 5 full songs at once. If I'm really bad though I can't change it. I'm definitely not allowed to listen to depressing songs if I can help it! :^_^ Most times when I try to listen to more music to get another track to play it...

I just have to say I'm very glad you posted this! I have a "child" though she looks like an adult. She's drowning in dark water (black) most of the time. Mine has long, black hair (though mine isn't) and is in white as well, hair and clothes weighed down with water. Sometimes she's floating...

I get this. It's really bad when a sad/depressing song combines with bad PTSD days. The song repeating (or phrase of a song) can drive me to deep depression. Sometimes it's the whole song over and over again, and somehow that's worse. When I "find" another song (often without realizing it at...

It was rather nice to talk to people live instead of in wait-and-message mode. Thanks for this. I appreciated it.

Hi Pixie! I get feelings like that when I look at photos of myself as well, and also tend not to become angry, even when I should. I take the anger (most times without realizing) and turn it to sadness because that's "safer." I tend to please so I don't incite anger in others. Looking at...

Hi Anni, I got some suggestions, and will see what I can do with them, so she can't hurt someone else. I had actually heard a group of people bad-mouthing her for being on a high horse and acting superior and giving bad advice, but I'm stubborn so I kept going. I'll see what I can do, if I...

Thanks Pixie, now I know what you mean. Part of how I read is a good dose of restless sleep (at least a week). Man, they should have screening for people who want to be therapists, perhaps a jerk-detector test, hehe. I'm glad I made it, because now I'm not as afraid to be more selective with...

I can say from experience that I have pain like in my traumas when I have a flashback. I know that I'm very stressed and on the edge of having a flashback when I start feeling something I felt during traumatic times (don't want to trigger, but it's hard to breathe, I'll leave it at that). That's...

Hi Res! Welcome! I have found people here to be very understanding. I can definitely identify with the forgetting what the argument is as it happens. I'm such a please-everyone type that I don't want to get angry and face them, so I end up going blank. Working on that, slowly but surely...

Unfortunately I didn't just see through it, almost died. Probably a good thing I got a second chance at life there. I almost wish I could bring myself to go legal on her, because if she does it to someone else, they might die, and I'd feel it was my fault. She was always on her high horse...

Thank you both for replying, and I will try the last place I can around here. I also am reading the posts here, and it is a nice feeling. I hope everyone else feels as welcomed (it looks like it to me!).

I'm very afraid. I've had other issues with therapists as well. They break down and sob, which makes me feel bad and like it wasn't safe to talk and I end up comforting them and then never going again, or they try to involve themselves in my life outside of therapy, buying books for me and the...

I chose the name Cryptantha because it means hidden flower, and is also part of the Latin name for a type of forget-me-nots. I live in Connecticut in the USA, and have suffered from PTSD for some time. I was abused from age 6 to 18, mostly verbal and mental, some physical, some sexual. It...