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I find that working on feeling safe is a big help.

Hello -- I'm hoping that it's ok to repost abstracts... if not, the link is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26191438 This is from a highly rated journal. Two crucial sentences from the abstract for me: "The over-optimistic claims for the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)...

It sounds like ANS might be autonomic nervous system? Something else? I haven't personally experienced physical effects like you describe. I do feel happier with some coffee though. My father went off coffee suddenly and almost passed out in the heat last week. To get off caffeine, slow is...

Yesterday -- 1 hr treadmill, 40 min. walking outside, 20 minutes stretching.

Hi @Marymickaela -- many hugs if that is helpful to you; that is so much but I am very glad that you are working on healing. A lot of us who are a bit over 29 didn't have the benefit of a world where understanding of this stuff existed when we were younger, so we have done the best we could. On...

I don't know what strokes tend to do; re. personality changes exactly; I'm sorry for the difficulties that has created. Scary stuff. In general, though, an issue of whether one certain thing such as divorce -- an upsetting thing for most of us-- was mentioned or thought or written in a...

@Evan -- I would be happier if you phrased that, "Generally it's good to deal with peoples' memories as if they are real" in the context of getting back abuse! ...at least, "It is necessary to deal with potentially false memories as if they were real". "Reality" vs. our memories: it's a lot...

I love some of the herding breeds personally; they can be very social and protective... they do vary though by the individual too. Mixes can be healthier! I am currently typing with three felines curled up around me; very helpful with safety feelings at home.

While the exact details of what happened may be unknown, focusing on an idea that what you are remembering may be "false" seems unlikely to be helpful, in my opinion. You're not in a court of law, you're trying to heal. Most people in the trauma field I've read do say it's very likely that...

A couple of ways I sometimes have bits of success with organizing/cleaning: 1.) Don't think of the tasks to be done, just think of the time (maybe 15 minutes) that you are going to spend doing some cleaning, even while doing it. 2.) Alternatively, look at a very small messy place and just clean...

30 minutes on the elliptical, 30 minutes walking, maybe an hour stretching.

Don't they mean that dogs hijack the natural human-cat bonding pathway?

40 minutes treadmill last night with lots of stretching

We folks with ptsd can have very very different issues, and what's good for one issue may sound absolutely horrible for someone who doesn't have that issue... it sounds to me like @desiderata310 's T is working on fairly basic trust with her; that's something that ideally all kids would have...

About 2 miles of walking today, and lots of stretching.

INFJ function stack... Ni Fe Ti Se

Hello @Brennan Joseph -- welcome; it does look like this is an old thread so many folks may not have seen. There is a "dissociation" -related forum and if you post a new thread there, or one in "introductions", you might get more responses. Do you have a trauma therapist, if you are having...

INFJ Strong on all but the last, J, but I relate more to INFJ than INFP. Where are all the Es?

Rode a horse and cantered a bit! I'd been nervous about cantering but it went well; loved the rolling feeling. Fed horse many treats.

@theshadowoftheliving -- it's quite possible that she just does not "get" ptsd with dissociation. That can be true with many professional therapists and other mental health folks. My T says that a lot of Ts don't get the right training to work with us, and then there are also folks with personal...

@theshadowoftheliving wait! It doesn't sound to me like @Junebug was asking you to blame yourself for anything in that post! Sometimes stuff that's not ideal just happens. This situation was upsetting to you; please just be gentle with yourself and work to get a good new T, I am rooting for you.

@theshadowoftheliving -- I find myself agreeing with @FridayJones ... this T doesn't seem terribly good for you, but that's a good reason not to use whoever she'd recommend; they might have the same philosophy. Some Ts' approach to boundaries really don't help certain of us, and some of those Ts...

Last night several hours of walking around looking at nature in a beautiful semi-wetland. Gorgeous ferns!!!

I find the focus on "regular" gun ownership among some Americans as a way to preserve freedom a strange line to draw in the sand. The writers of the U.S. Constitution were familiar with single-shot musket types of arms. Anything beyond that is stretching the most concrete reading of the...

More treadmill, stretching. 50 minutes treadmill, pushing up the elevation setting.