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Thank you for your reply,It is good that you can just sit in a room quietly with your therapist,I think this shows that you have got some trust.
I hope that you sort out your other problems that are concerning you at the moment with your T.
I had my therapy session today and I made a conscious...
Thank you for your reply,I know what you mean ,I do have times where I feel like I am not completely there in my sessions.
There are times when my T will ask me a question and he will have to say it a couple of times not because I don't understand him but because I have gone off to a different...
Thank you very much for your reply.I can definitely relate to a lot of what you have written especially the part about where I am scared of what he will discover inside if he looks into my eyes.
As part of my homework this week I have to write about my negative thoughts and lack of eye contact...
Thank you very much everyone for your replies.It seems that this quite a common problem for people in therapy and I am glad that you have shared your problems and solutions with me as it is good to know that I am not alone.
I think quite a lot of the way I am feeling is due to my own negative...
Thank you for your reply.
I really want to look at him as he is literally the first man who I feel safe in his company and hasn't hurt me and I would just like to be able to look back at him to show him that I trust him.
It is not only him that I have eye contact problems with this is a major...
Thank you for your reply and making me see it not only me that feels this way.It is something that is really difficult to do if you are not used to it,I guess it is something that I have to practice at.
I have been seeing my T for about 5 months now on and off and I have actually got to the point where I am starting to trust him which is a really big thing for me as I have never trusted a T before and I find it very difficult to trust people in general.
Last week I cried properly for the first...
I often have stomach problems due to my anxiety so what I do is take a Imodium about an hour before my therapy sessions ect and this really helps me.
I am also heard that charcoal is good for stomach problems.
Maybe you could tell your therapist that you have stomach problems(no need to go into...
I also suffer from this problem especially on the night that I have had my therapy session.
I have all these thoughts going around about what happened during the session and often I wish that I had another therapy session the next day so I could go over what is going on in my head.
I have this problem all the time,I have so many thoughts going through my head during my therapy sessions but I find them hard to say them out loud.
I think a lot of it is to do with the way I have been brought up with negative thoughts and it has made me believe that I don't have the right to...
Sometimes it is really hard to read what our therapist are thinking and what their body language means.
I find this difficult to deal with as I have trust issues ect so what I do is go into my therapy sessions with some questions w which have come up for me from my last session and my T goes...