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No thankfully exercise really helps me centre myself. It has nothing I'd associate with my trauma though. I'm more triggered if I have to try to lie down or sit still for 5 minutes! Hoping you manage to work through it though. I'd suggest building up your tolerance to it very slowly. Do you...

No it wasn't offensive to me as a nurse. The op asked if it were nuts to consider these nurses rapists. I just pointed out black and white factually that it was not rape. You think her mother stood back and consented to the nurses to "rape" her? You think nurses will abuse a child with their...

Thank you for this comment! I'm a nurse and I've had colleagues accused of rape for doing wound dressings with consent! As someone who has ptsd from rape and who is a nurse, I can tell you, no nurse would insert a catheter into a child without parental consent and a parent holding that child's...

How're you doing @Casey_03? I really hope you're okay whatever happens. Feel free to pm me if you like, I'm currently 20 weeks pregnant but have been through miscarriage, one within the last year. It's devastating. But you seem to be taking on much more stress than is necessary. Thinking of you.

I guess when I filled in all the initial diagnostic assessments, I answered them from a fully present 'normal me' point of view. I don't feel like dissociation fits the real me. But then there's this other part that I can't bear to accept. I hate what it does to me or how it ruins the good...

Lately I've been wishing I did die as a child. There were lots of times I almost did. But living with the memories and intrusive thoughts now seems even harder than actually living it. I'm not saying I want to kill myself, I just want it to stop. Basically there were times where I would...

I have yet to find one I'm happy with! My current one, I thought, was mature (same age as me), she's well qualified (a preschool degree), good references and previous experience. But she has no initiative, wants to be out all day, even if it means my son misses his dinner or nap, feeds him...

You need to get professional help. I'm not going to just say walk away. That's the obvious response. But I doubt you will. So maybe if you speak to a professional in confidence (and maybe if he can get help of his own), you'll both come to see just how unhealthy this has become. You deserve...

I very briefly had an experience with a T like that. I brought my partner in and called her out on everything. She just sat there with a condescending smirk telling me I wasn't in the right service and she didn't have time for me. Almost, almost put me off bothering with that service again. I...

Unfortunately I can relate. But you know what the good thing to take from all of this is? How your boyfriend reacted. He was there to comfort and reassure you in a scary situation. That's how we begin to learn to heal and develop positive associations from a former negative situation. It...

So sorry you had to encounter such an unnecessary and triggering event. Not to fob you off or anything, but I really think therapy is the place to assess your triggers, the whys, hows etc. It's something I have spent a long time working on, yet still have little clarity on why exactly I react...

I think that seeing a trained therapist in person is the best step forward. I don't know that online diagnosis is actually valid or reliable and from what you say, I would question the complete ethics and motivation of such a service. I hope you can speak to someone who can help you find some...

Just wondering have you gotten expressions of interest from ptsd sufferers? I think if you can prove that there are ppl wishing to sign up to it knowing full well there won't be a psych present then that's a good start. Also, there would probably have to be some sort of disclaimer/contract for...

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge advocate of mindfulness. But as a grounding technique I think it has it's limits. My therapist was harping on about it and how I should try it for panic or during flashbacks etc. I wanted to slap her! It's quite attainable in the mundane aspects of life, when...

I assume they treated your high INR by reducing/holding your warfarin or giving vitamin k? They don't sound related unless your having symptoms such as PR bleeding or something. Maybe go to the ED if you haven't got your latest INR result back to make sure it's at therapeutic again. Both don't...

It's funny - my T has been shocked that no one was ever alarmed by some of the things that were obvious from my childhood, how social services never got involved, and how a psychiatrist wrote me off as 'attention-seeking' and 'trying to make trouble for her poor parents'. But it's not really...

I think communication is essential. You both need to sit down and reevaluate exactly where you're both at and where you would ideally hope to be, how you may both make that work etc. Or whether it's just not possible. It's best to try to be realistic. It sounds like he is very committed. But...

Kinda reminds me of this: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/christian-parenting-handbook-train-up-child-ceri-504981 how religious extremists can lose touch and go too far. As you've been diagnosed, I think the point is that you're questioning whether your traumas were significant enough to constitute a...

The main issue is of confidentiality. I had to confirm that I had a history or csa. And as soon as I did this, she said she would have to report this (see my previous thread on this). Anyway, after much haggling about it and me saying week after week that I'm quitting if that's the case, she...

Thanks all for your input. The problem is, I haven't not heard her out. I have wasted several sessions being told she'll discuss the matters further with a senior and then waiting until the next session for clarity, only for the issue to be ignored again. I feel like I'm totally fobbed off. And...

I've been seeing a new T for about 2 months. Last week I had called to cancel because I felt we're on different pages and that she wasn't taking my concerns about therapy seriously (I only got to leave a voicemail as she was unavailable). She left a return voicemail the next day telling me...

I do the whole restless leg thing a lot without noticing until someone points it out. I'm trying to use mindfulness to calm my hypesactivity or rather hypervigilant state. I'm not on meds anymore so I can't say it was ever anything to do with that - I've done it ever since I was a young child in...

The worst for me is losing the ability to reach my optimum potential (something like @Cj77 mentioned about sense of self/me). That and the fact that years on I'm still losing time. The lack of connection or moreso disconnection is also one of the biggest losses imo. No amount of mindfulness or...

I did before but felt really bad for doing so and read up a bit about it because I felt like a stalker or something lol. But then I read about the different levels and it seems mine was only at a level of vigilance to ensure self-preservation. I wouldn't do it often, just once off to see who...

It completely depends on the circumstances. Did they know you didn't want to do it? Were you of age to consent? Were you intimidated? Had they done it to you before? And so on... After a while of being raped by a certain person, I eventually forfeited and submitted. I get angry at myself for...