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Oh @Midnightmoon ! Sending hugs if you want them! ok, don't want to make this about me, but currently feeling really cross for you right now... just no.... nope... this is unprofessional (given the other stuff you've told us too)... gonna break this down gently... I can totally see why you...

Really good point thanks @Friday ... Maybe I can start by writing it down? This probably sounds really stupid ... like really stupid... but I don't know how to SAY what I need...I can write it maybe if I have time to think about it... but I think I'd have read it out loud... I feel like such...

Great! In your own time of course... Gotcha Thanks sounds like you've become quite an expert yourself (not by choice unfortunately 🫠) Glad to hear that for you! Although obviously there's a flip side I'd imagine if new T is challenging 🫣 Funny you should mention this...I was considering...

Yes I agree a tailored strategy which works for you is best and you need to try a few of those strategies out which takes time... and, your T needs to know the extent you're not remembering things.. they need to be on that same page so that together you're working on it... I think though...

Ah hi @Midnightmoon ! Ditto to all that! You've hit it on the head! Old T was a humanistic psychotherapist with no experience or training in Dissociative Disorders...new T, a Clinical Psychologist specialist in Dissociative Disorders... there is so far quite a contrast... not necessarily in a...

Hi @Midnightmoon .. I've been away for a bit but I'm just catching up with this thread now... sorry you have to put up with this therapist bullshit with both 1 and 2! Others have already said it, but again, you really do deserve better... I'm just wondering where you're at with it now? Not...

Thanks, I appreciate that. And obviously same goes for you.

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Makes sense... for me it's about being told I'm wrong in what I'm saying, that it's not understandable, that it's selfish, that I'm stupid. So guess that's also about being hurt.

I agree with all you've said here I think the issue I'm seeing highlighted which I need to work on is how to communicate what I really think and feel, in the moment, with him in session... I just lose my voice. So afraid I'm wrong. I'm strong in my conviction when I write. But I'm very weak...

Hi @Charbella , it's all good! I'm discussing my perceptions of statements made and i don't add any judgement to anyone here ever etc... especially as written communication can just be miss understood or mis communicated so easily...So i just reply what comes to mind... which was for me if...

I love this community! Different perspectives, careful consideration, sharing of personal stories etc... Very grateful every time I come on here... It's so interesting how lots of us see things from different angles, and it's healthy to discuss... So, there's a focus on this statement The...

I don't seem to be able to just turn up to session and talk about them...I have to email about them ... my old T made me read it out loud to him. For the really difficult stuff he read them out loud and then asked if he'd read it out correctly. My new T is online, and I basically email him then...

Thanks @sidptitala - you wrote it so much better than i could..i think you get where I'm coming from... exactly how it's been for me with my last therapist who was face to face... took nearly a year to be able to talk just a bit about it and stay present enough in the room.... but this new T...

Thanks alot @LunaticOnTheFritz .. I think you're right... 👍

Not sure anyone else has said it's not a trauma survivor need. I think the idea more is that it's a need for some (prob those at particular stage of journey) and not others. Everyone's different. And it's been a need of mine at this stage of my journey. And I'm a trauma survivor. Makes sense i...

I really appreciate this feedback and this is why I come can get to hear what others have to say especially when it's truthful and useful... helpful in an encouraging way .. I'm pretty bad at the mind reading thing. I expected my old T to read my mind and I can see this happens in the real...

I mean I prob chose a poor example of a therapist giving empathy 🤣... I think I was trying to get across the importance for me at this stage in my healing of having some sort of emotional feedback which helped me to see he wasn't thinking what my own insecurities were telling me about what he...

Hi @Ecdysis , good to see you too and I'm liking your new profile pic! thanks for your input, really helpful as ever... This is really helpful and I like this suggestion. I'm a bit worried by saying stuff to him about his reactions and non reactions how he takes it, as I don't want to...

Haven't been on here for a while as have tried to focus on me and new therapy (am 6 sessions in). All in all, he's calm, gentle, not pushy and I don't have any major concerns at this point. Just waiting for the relationship to develop in its own time. He is trying to encourage me to work...

Linford Christie - UK 100 meter sprint runner. Favourite breakfast on a Saturday morning...

🤣 true!! Mosquitos are probably the worst of the lot!!! Luckily we don't have to worry about that so much in the UK, but I get eaten alive when I go abroad.. We should set up 'the most impressive Mosquito bite' photo competition over the summer ☀️ 🤣

I forgive myself for, despite trying, not being able to get all of me together to show myself who I am... I also forgive my body for not having the physical energy and brain power to consistently carry out the important things I know I could do and be otherwise...

@Midnightmoon ...i just remembered I'd said in one of my earlier posts I would put up the video talking about shame which I found helpful and which i feel you may be interestedin too... just went back to search for it.. found the guy, he's called Tim Fletcher ... but he's done ALOT of videos...

Went to the park at the end of the day and a very very friendly squirrel decided grace us with his presence ... was with my son and he absolutely loved it.. he took alot of photos of this creature, felt very special ... I always feel more connected to myself around animals - they have such a...