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@RussH I so get how you feel about people laughing at you. I have had people hurt me and then laugh at me because of the way I looked afterwards. The humiliation that is felt when people laugh at you is a sudden reaction that has terrible memories attached to it. In order for me to be...

Thank you for helping me to have the courage to continue to find a suitable therapist. I know that being a therapist must be the most difficult job there is... Having to listen to horror stories all day and trying to help people see the good side of life and I'm sure that they suffer "compassion...

I totally agree with ghotiff! It sounds as if your mother may be trying to redirect the blame for your abuse on someone that she knows you cannot confront about it. If you have good feelings about your grandmother and you cannot believe in your heart that she did anything to you...your feelings...

@Valer you are really in a scary situation! Please take care to let someone know what is happening. You have a wonderful start to a fulfilling future, ie starting college, even with these horrible traumatic events in your life. You are trying to move forward and you are to be commended for doing...

Thank you so much for your affirmations. I always second guess myself and think that I am the problem instead of I have a problem. I don't want be considered a problem client, but I really need someone that will be able to encourage me and be supportive in my therapy and not try to shut me down...

Could these stages possibly be of use in trauma work? Someone or something has killed, squelched, or extinguished our spirit and we are trying to retrieve it. Denial-we have forgotten, hide from, or avoid our traumatic experience Anger-we are angry at ourselves, others, or the world for...

Hi everyone. I have been reading the posts in myptsd and have found them to be so much more helpful than my recent therapist. I have been suffering from PTSD from several traumas in my life for quite a number of years but have just this past year decided that I needed help with my symptoms. I...