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I wake up every day and I'm so confused I don't know what day it is or what time it is sometimes I can't tell if I'm really awake and sometimes I feel like I've already been awake for hours like I remember having conversations but they never really happened. After some internet research it...

This feels like I'm asking a simple question, but it's not. Why talk about the details of trauma? Why tell my therapist about the bad things? What happens afterwards? What changes? Does my brain change? Does more exposure correlate with less anxiety? All I can think of is why? A part of me...

I am considering making a list of scary words, bad words. I don't say them and I don't like when my therapist says them. I decided I want to make a list. I want to make a list and then rank them on how bad they are. I'm surprised that I can't find anything online like this for trauma peeps...

I have always had dissociative issues. Growing up I told my mother I could see myself from the corner of the room. "sure sweetie, me too." In first grade, I told my teacher that I couldn't feel my feet. I told her when I walked I felt like I was going forward on roller skates. She sent me to the...

What I mean is, could there not be a specific thing I am flashing back to? I did not have a recognizable trigger or memory, I just started to cry hysterically. Ill explain a little more: Friday night I had a situation that is vaguely reminiscent in theme to my trauma. I saw one of the...

Hi -- I'm going to pick up medical records from my pediatrician on Monday. I'm 27 and when I was a little kid, I was sexually abused. I have scattered memories and feelings most of which I don't really understand. I have a pretty solid memory (not really negative) of being in the doctors...

Hi. Not sure what I should say. Sometimes when I have to tell someone about it for the first time (doctor, therapist, etc) -- I can't. Which I think is what is happening now. Bad things happened to me when I was little. Childhood sexual abuse. I'm a researcher type and I wanted to join...