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Yes. Not often and only when I'm really distressed. But yes, I do...and no, I don't think it's a bad thing. I think it's ok to self soothe...maybe not at work though :)

A Unitarian-Universalist minister might be an option.

I have had a couple of really bad experiences with hotlines...they can (and will) trace the phone number... I think my problem is, I am (relatively) stable and functioning until I go into therapy...then I destabilize...or if I don't destabilize, I obsess about therapy until my life is focusing...

I'm not sure what different ways of processing means. I know I've had some pretty inexperienced (but good intentioned) therapists try to help me process...but it has always ended in me destabilizing. I met with a trauma therapist (somatic) last January, but she refused to see me because I...

I am considering the possibility that I may not be capable of processing my trauma and that I may need to accept that coping when I'm triggered is the best I can do. I don't typically give up on things, but I'm close to admitting defeat on this one...and I'm pretty sure I'm ok with that...

I'm starting to think that individual therapy may not be the best thing for me...I find it shaming and triggering (my issues, not the therapist). I know there are a number of folks here who have not had success with individual therapy. If you are one of them, what have you done instead to move...

Sorry to open an older thread...but I just found this and found it very interesting that it was started while I was under an involuntary commitment in October that was triggered (not caused - that was entirely my fault) by my DBT therapy. I felt the need to respond to the question of whether or...

Maybe, just maybe, you'll find a spaciousness, an openness in having all of that stuff gone. Can you allow yourself just to be with that for a time before you go "replacing"? Can you maybe agree to be mindful in the process of replacing - staying present and mindful as you buy things you...

This. Yes.

I think the point was that you needed that stuff at the time...and maybe you don't now. In Buddhism, there is a lot of talk about attachment - attachment or clinging to things we desire...but it's this attachment and clinging that causes suffering because of the transient nature of everything...

I am learning that there may be biosocial elements as well which may impact the ability to "recover" from trauma for different folks. My DBT group leaders talk about "highly sensitive people" who essentially have no (or little) emotional "skin"...add a life threatening trauma on top of this and...

I'm so sorry you've not been accepted into a DBT group - it seems strange to me that they would tell you you don't fit in. I am getting a lot out of the group. I recently switched to a DBT therapist to try to incorporate the skills more quickly, but I'm having a lot of ambivalence about the...

It's John Briere. "If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of DSM (and the need for the easier explanations such as DSM ) would be shrunk to a pamphlet in two generations.”

I can't remember if you have done some DBT work or not...but VITALS is helpful for me when I need to plow through something.

I have been diagnosed with PTSD by different professionals several times over many years. I never believed any of them until the last year or so...and even now, on occasion, I will revert into "I'm just crazy (NOS)". Right now, what helps me most, is to concentrate on symptom relief and goals...

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I had something similar happen, only I had gone to an open house the weekend before I was involuntarily admitted to a psych unit. The woman doing the intake looked really familiar and, after about 20 minutes, I remembered her from photographs at the open house. I asked her if her house was for...

I have "done" both. I have worked very hard not to use "maladaptive daydreaming" and "intentional" dissociation (now there's an oxymoron for you!) as a coping mechanism. The up side of doing this is it has made me more able to recognize when I'm having an involuntary dissociative episode so I...

Oh - all of these answers are so amazing...thought provoking...my brain is clicking, processing, digesting...I wish we were all in a room to talk together. I have spent a good deal of my fairly long life thinking I was crazy...damaged...and yet, I always...and I mean ALWAYS was able to...

I am currently transitioning to a new therapist to work on gaining specific skills. The process has not been easy as I am/was very attached to my current/old therapist, so there’s some grieving going on. I’m also having to revisit my mental health “history”, which, on paper, makes me look like...

Bingo. This is my brain's "go to" response as well. Figuring this one out has been pivotal in reducing my ideation.

I broke my arm doing stupid things on a bike. It was the first day of summer vacation after 3rd or 4th grade so I missed a lot of activities because of the cast. I was in shock at the time, so the only pain I remember was when the doctor set it...he just kind of snapped it into place...I think...