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I can't remember the last time I had a good nights sleep.Firstly I find it difficult actually getting off to sleep and then when I do I have nightmares and I feel like I am being pinned down and I try to move but I can't and then I start to panic.

No I wouldn't say he is my friend.What I have been through with my T over the last year has been one of the most deepest and intimate relationships I have ever had in my life but I know he is not my friend.He is my supporter and a person who wants to help me through my difficulties. I have...

Glad that you heard back from her and that you have got a new appointment. Well done for reaching out.

I say sorry to my T quite a bit and he is always telling me that I don't need to apologise for anything. For me it is something I have done all my life especially when I am feeling quite distressed.I think it is some kind of distraction technique in that if I say sorry then I might not get hurt...

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That all sounds really positive and it sounds like she is the right person to support you going forward.

I am glad that you have found something that helps you . Nature come be very relaxing and if it helps you unwind then that can only be a good thing.

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I just wanted to say you are not alone.I have had a very similar experience over the last week and it is a completely new experience for me and it is scary. My T has told me that grounding and mindfulness helps during these difficult times especially when you are so raw and confused about this...

Thank you all for your replies and your support.It has been a really tough week for me and maybe I am projecting some of my feelings onto him and assuming way too much. I guess I feel this way because I have kept these feelings repressed for so long and now they are starting to surface he is in...

You are probably right @Justmehere .I suppose I just feel like some kind of burden to him.

Thank you both very much for your replies.I suppose at the moment I am in this very raw emotional state and I have got all this sh*t going on in my head. I could tell the session was just as hard for him as it was for me as normally we say goodbye in a friendly way but on Tuesday it was like...

I feel so sorry for my therapist,when I first walked into his room he probably had the brief that he was about to deal with someone who had PTSD and that we would work on getting rid of a certain memory with the use of EMDR and I would be gone within 12 weeks. However I kept getting stuck on...

@Sweetleaf Thank you so much for sharing your story with with me.I am sorry you had to go through what you did when you were younger. My T kept saying the words sexual abuse to me today and I found it difficult to hear.I felt like no he can't be saying those words to me ,I was in disbelief but...

I have always known that my father was physically abuse towards me when I was a child and it is something that I have been working through with my T. However something changed in my thoughts last week and it started with a trip to the dentist.This dentist had exactly the same hair colour as my...

@Still Standing you made me lol with your comment

Just wondering how many of us have tattoos or piercings on this site.What is your tattoo and whereabouts on your body is it. I have got a semi colon on my wrist which I got on Halloween last year and I got it not only for the message but also to help ground me.I am looking to get a small...

On the NHS in the UK the main difficulty for me has been the lack of time that you get with a psychologist as it is normally 3 months at the most.When you have trust problems it is very difficult to build up a therapeutic relationship with a therapist in such a short time. I have had 4...

I feel the same way about my therapist and I know I shouldn't because after all he is in a caring profession and he has other clients other than just me.Normally he will walk me to the door and we will have a little chat and say goodbye but last time we met my session over ran so he went to walk...

I haven't replied earlier but just wanted to say well done for today.

I am the complete opposite in that I cry a lot,normally I will cry in the bath or at night time before I fall to sleep.For me crying is my way of processing how I am feeling and is a good way to try and get some negativity out of my system.I would say that everybody learns deal with trauma in...

I agree with @Still Standing seeing a therapist who has experience in dealing with PTSD makes a big difference,also having a good connection and therapeutic relationship really helps as well.I would say do not give on therapy just because you have had a bad experience,it took me 16 years to find...

I am the same, I have been with my T for nearly a year and I hardly look him at all.It is all too intense for me for two reasons the first is showing vulnerability and the second goes back to my childhood and the anger I used to see in my dads eyes. Eye contact is something I really need to work...

Over the last 16 years I have had several different diagnosis about my mental health.16 years ago I saw a incident on a train which I never really got over ,then I got severe PND,then after that I was diagnosed with everything from depression to GAD to schizophrenia then eventually with therapy...

I got rid of my Facebook at the end of last year because it was having a negative impact on my mental health.I was doing far too much compare and despair and it was dragging my mood down.I still compare and despair on different sites (including on here) but it isn't as bad as the problems I had...