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Please move it to the poll area... I'd like to keep the poll :)

I am curious about a lot of what I read online about PTSD and how people are different than they were before the trauma, and how therapy can help get you back to being yourself again. Well, what about those of us who had trauma from an early age? Therapy isn't going to help me get back to the...

Change, I am not upset by my therapist triggering me actually. I have spent 7 months learning to trust him, and it helps that my best friend also sees him. I feel like from time to time my therapist tests the waters so to speak, to get a sense of where I'm at and how far he can push me. I have...

I think money is a huge stressor in the majority of people's lives, and PTSD is an anxiety disorder, so it only makes sense that adding more and more stress can create more severe PTSD symptoms. Completely true in my case. I actually almost feel like my money struggles have been a trauma all in...

Willow-Our experiences are very similar, and it feels so reassuring to read your post in response to mine. I had several moments yesterday in therapy where he asked me a question and I just couldn't answer it. It wasn't that I didn't want to answer, it was that I just literally didn't have a...

This isn't the first time I dissociated in therapy, but it caught me off guard. Or rather, my therapist caught me off guard by using a particular trauma of mine (one of the only ones he knows details on) to illustrate a point he was making about something I had asked him regarding avoiding...

I can relate but it was much worse when I was on antidepressants, for a total of 7 years. During that time I did a lot of crazy, adrenaline seeking things to just feel alive, to feel anything at all. Ski racing, snowboarding, drinking, pot, surfing, partying, etc. Now that I am off the...

Being in my head is a way to tune everything/everyone out when feeling stressed. This tends to be a choice I make, though not entirely deliberately,it just happens. And I get online and research things about my symptoms to try to better understand my somewhat still new diagnosis of PTSD so I can...

I went to 2 student/intern therapists about 4 years ago, neither were helpful, neither diagnosed me with anything and the first one seemed more like someone I would be friends with and the other didn't seem to have any life experience whatsoever. My current therapist seems great compared to the...

Thank you so much Wileykat. :)

Hi Sara, I am not sure what to do about my relationship just yet but our issues are out in the open and we are both in separate therapy. He is mainly focusing on our relationship in his and I wad just diving into my trauma therapy when he decided to majorly stir the relationship issues up. I...

I guess I should ask too if this is a specific PTSD issue or just a regular human issue. :)

I am having a really hard time putting my finger on how I feel sometimes, and if I can change how I feel. I have a trauma history from childhood and hold a lot of resentment towards my mother, who neglected me and my brother, leaving him to act out his anger on me while she was away. I have a...

Hey Mermaid, I am amazed at your strength to post your history and current struggles. I was unable to fully read your post (it reminds me a lot of my past in some ways and I felt myself getting triggered) but I have so much empathy for you, I can feel the hurt you carry and I am so glad you are...

I just brought this up to my therapist and he said it is a form of OCD and that I need to stop avoiding the intrusive memory and write about it in detail.

I am right here with you. I have been in therapy for 6 months, initially for help in my career and ADD, but 3 months ago it occurred to my therapist that I have PTSD. This came as a shock to me as my trauma was ongoing during childhood and marginalized by society. It has taken me this long to...

Wow. I am here because I have been doing hours of research daily about childhood neglect and you original post opened my eyes to the fact that I am totally obsessing over this stuff as an avoidance technique. I have been stuck in my head for days and tonight my fiance told me he misses me. I...

See... we aren't so broken, are we? Glad so many of us have such awesome traits!

I cannot plan either! I do have ADD though. My fiance calls me a "very instinctual creature" because I just react to things intuitively without thinking/planning. I tried to plan a "Pinterest Party" with my friends and everyone was to bring a dish they have never made that they found on...

We all have so many concerns with our "condition", but I want to know what GOOD things people can identify about themselves despite your past traumas. I am curious to know how many of us might be talented in certain areas. For me, I have recently found I enjoy writing and think I am pretty good...

Thanks you guys... I think I can now have a bit more courage to address this with my T. Its kind of hard to talk about it with him since he is a guy, but I had a good session yesterday and I left feeling like I understood how my past has come to play a huge role in my life today. One thing he...

Trigger warning...I have recently been diagnosed with PTSD (from non-sexual sibling abuse growing up) and am trying to make sense of my life with this new perspective. I don't think I really have any flashbacks, just a lot of PTSD symptoms. I did have an instance a few weeks ago where we were...

I just found out I have ptsd from childhood trauma (sibling abuse) which I never even considered to be trauma because it was minimalized by my parents and society. Then in therapy, before I was diagnosed, I dissociated when My T was talking about how my feelings of helplessness related to...

These posts sound a lot like me. Not sure exactly what triggers and emotional flashbacks are as I was just diagnosed two weeks ago but I have really been struggling this weekend. I just blew up at my fiance. I was. woken up by my toddler wanting to eat breakfast so I got up and got him food...

Footie, I had one major dissociation a few weeks ago for the first time. My T didn't recognize it until I emailed him later about what I experienced. He now checks in with me thru the session to see if I'm shutting down and it usually stops it from happening.