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Hello, My therapist started talking about rewriting nightmares yesterday, and I decided I wanted to do try it by myself. However, I am struggling and won't be seeing my therapist again until the 3rd of September. A lot of my nightmares are replays of what was done to me when I was younger, so...

Thank you so much for your response! I will have my phone with me, so audio books, music, pictures and games will be at hand. I think I may end up with two cuddly toys. I hadn't considered hand sanitizer or cream, and I think that is a good idea, along with the note book. Dad is able to be...

I am having my knee reconstructed.

Hi, I am having a major knee operation next week, and will be in hospital for a few days and nights. I am absolutely terrified of being in hospital (some of my abuse was by a doctor, and occurred in a hospital). My therapist has suggested making a comfort box, so that when I am alone I can...

Has anyone ever remembered anything new, about their abuse, during a therapy session. We are just starting to look into the past and I know I have lots of things I don't remember, and I am scared about what will happen if this happens during a session. What has your therapist done if this has...

I am currently waiting for a major knee operation so I can't really do physical things for the moment.

Hi, I have cptsd and I'm currently in therapy, which started last June. At the moment I have lots of things going on which are related to my abuse and are causing the police to be involved. As a result, I am having real issues with anxiety attacks, flashbacks, body memories, dissociation and...

I haven't actually read them. Dad and my police officer do, and they decide on things I should know about, but don't go into the full details that he provides. I changed my name last year, I wanted to be part of my adopted family rather than my biological one, so have got a new email. I had a...

I'm not a minor, I'm in my 20s. The police have tried to force me to give the email a few times, but I really don't feel like I can. I had a bad experience with the police when I was 16, my biological mother made them believe I was making it up and they refused to believe me. There was a lot...

Citrus oils help and I have anchors that I take with me to the sessions, so my therapist has put them in my hands a couple of times, which helps. When I'm at home and dad is with me, feeling his beard is the thing that helps most, none of my abusers had beards so I only associate it with dad and...

No. We colour every session whilst talking. We do various breathing things and noticing things round the room, like 5 things I can see that are blue or circular, things I can hear, etc. We often look at photos or videos of my baby brother, or talk about new things he has done, this is the most...

Hi Barefoot, My therapist has essentials oil that we have used a couple of times and she went through them with me, so we picked out ones that helped and ones that didn't. The main fear I have with telling her about the emails is that I am still terrified she will be ashamed of me, or hate...

I have been seeing my therapist for almost a year and I really struggle to tell her things I feel I need to, It took a while but I managed to ask her about sitting next to each other, on the floor, and she was really happy to do that and she came up with colouring during our sessions to try and...

Hi, I'm having knee reconstruction in July/August time. I am already having increased anxiety and flashbacks. My only experiences of being an Inpatient are from times when I ended up being severely injured or ill after being abused. When I was 6, i spent two months in hospital. One of my...

Hi all, I have just started therapy with someone who has trained in therapy for people who suffered childhood abuse and I really like her. I really want to talk and tell her things that were done to me, not in a lot of detail to begin with but maybe build on it in the future. When I try and...

Thanks ladee, it is nice to be somewhere that doesn't turn the trauma into a competition and understands that it is all wrong and difficult and not your fault. It definitely isn't something to compete about. Xx

Hi, I joined this site after reading various discussion pages about therapy and dissociation which I have found useful. I'm in my early twenties and live with the most amazing adoptive parents and my baby brother, he is not yet a year old and has helped me so much more than he can ever realise...