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I would never suggest that any individuals suffering isn’t real just because it doesn’t fit a particular box - for me it’s the beauty of not tying myself to whichever diagnostic criteria happens to be flavour of the month. The DSM is a diagnostic guide produced by and for the APA and serves that...

I agree in as much as the experience, pain and suffering is real regardless however if someone engages with the medical model of mental health (diagnosis - treatment - cure) the label really does matter because the label determines the treatment determines the “cure”. Some of the stigma comes...

You sound like you’ve had a terrible time - many of the symptoms of PTSD are also found in grief, which can be both complex and debilitating - it’s not as simple as feeling sad about the loss etc. I wonder if you’ve done any work on coping with the losses you’ve experienced?

Secondary trauma is a clinical response to trauma - not feeling a bit sad, not caring for someone and not thinking about them for a couple of days - but having a trauma response to someone else’s trauma. Feeling sad for patients, hoping they’re ok, thinking about the best way to help them are...

You’ve built a business before so if he sabotages that the worst you’ll need to do is start again. Your phone etc are inconvenient more than anything. I wouldn’t be telling him you don’t want him to have anything to do with you moving out - I would just move. Once and for all get out. Try to...

Actually it really does matter because seizures brought on by trauma (what used to be called pseudo seizures) don’t respond to drug therapies used to treat epilepsy. So, if misdiagnosed you’re in for a world of pain while the doctor tries to find a medication that works to fix a medical...

Counsellors can develop secondary, or vicarious, trauma if they don’t attend to their own self care properly. It’s not caused by having one client with a particular trauma, it’s caused by an accumulation of work where the therapist hasn’t balanced their case load - ie too may traumatised...

I agree, I think an hour long session can be incredibly unhelpful in working through trauma. I’ve been lucky enough to find a therapist who, despite contracting with me – and charging for – a weekly hour long session, has been very flexible. I don’t think we’ve ever met for less than 90 minutes...

I had lots of issues with dissociation, from spacey, unable to speak to full collapse/seizure type episodes. I also went through a phase of blacking out where I’d be doing something, or be in a conversation and appear totally fine, but have no memory of it minutes later. For example, I’d be...

It’s entirely possible to find a way through it. You won’t be the same person - trauma changes you, but there is recovery and often growth in the process. What you’re experiencing now is your body and mind’s way of processing what happened, the more you can accept how you’re feeling as part of a...

The whole process of therapy (assuming your T is psychodynamic) is about making the unconscious conscious - it’s an expected outcome of therapy. What you’re describing still sounds like a dissociative process (akin to daydreaming - there but not really retaining stuff. I don’t think it’s a...

Cite your source for this please. People with poor mental health develop maladaptive coping mechanisms, that’s a result of repeated poor choices becoming a habit - there’s nothing psychological or neurological that forces someone into any kind of addiction. Better to say addiction is connected...

I wonder if you might find it useful to break things down a bit. Not so much in terms of what’s happened to you but in terms of impact or the symptoms you struggle with. So, for example, flashbacks are really hard but are a sign your system is trying to process your experiences. There are lots...

I mean this really kindly, he is not your responsibility. You’ve only spent 3 months together and have had some weird online on/off/on relationship - you’re making life changing decisions in order to have him treated for an illness he’s never been diagnosed with and you both still live with your...

No one here can tell you whether you have PTSD, complex PTSD or any other disorder. The symptom array for PTSD overlaps with lots of other diagnosis (including BPD), and the assessment is fairly complex. In terms of getting help and support, it’s not impossible to get help through the NHS -...

Gaming addiction isn’t a symptom of PTSD. If you saw someone else while in a relationship with him you did indeed cheat. I’m wondering what you’re looking for OP, what kind of help or support do you think you need?

So it sounds like you need to slow your system down. A lot. If you can’t sleep, rest at every opportunity- when I was in that place I’d nap all the time, by which I mean I would lie on my bed with the radio on quietly and just be. If you can reduce your workload at work or at home in any way, do...

So, apparently the previous conviction was for contempt of court, for which he got an 18 month suspended sentence. The current charge is breach of the peace for filming defendants in the case on the way into court, calling them racist names and assuming their guilt before a jury has convicted...

I didn’t, but my dad was violent and sbusive so any physical contact was violent. My children are much younger but playful bum slapping (as in both kids screaming with laughter while my husband and I try to catch them) is pretty normal. It doesn’t sound odd to me tbh, depending on their...

Reporting on current criminal trials has always been subject to restriction to avoid the potential for tainting the jury. It’s s criminal offence to breach the reporting restrictions - if I remember rightly it falls under contempt of court. Assuming Robinson reported something he shouldn’t have...

If you read through the forum you’ll find all kinds of private, sensitive and potentially embarrassing topics up for discussion. Have a bit of a look around - you may find someone else has already posted about the thing you’re struggling with or you may find courage to post openly.

The key here are the words “like PTSD” and “similar to”. The symptom range for PTSD is pretty wide and overlaps a number of different diagnosis. The first thing though is that you need to have a qualifying trauma - which isn’t about experiencing significant pain on a regular basis, it’s about...

I know that feeling - I remember my T and I talking about me literally chipping away at things and I did think “I’ll be here forever”. It literally felt like I was emptying the ocean with a spoon. The funny thing though - tackling some of those really ingrained thought processes felt very hard...

Absolutely agree with the above - you’ll never sort panic with planning - they’re two completely different processes. Planning is a cognitive, rational process and panic is a somatic, emotional one. You need to bring yourself from your heart back to your head. So, grounding exercises, breathing...

There’s a very big difference between planning and panicking. In one case you look calmly at what might happen, look at the options open to you and decide which are feasible, preferable and realistic. In the other you go over and over a situation in your mind, predicting the worst possible...