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I definitely understand that. Friends are only receptive up to a point and then they just pretend to listen bc they don't know how to help. Thank goodness you actually have a counselor you trust and can open up to! Maybe TODAY he didn't get you, but does he for the most part? You have to...

It always feels that way when your body and mind are exhausted. You feel like you can't handle anymore and you just want the pain to END. Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself?

I can definitely relate to this. I feel like this ALOT. My body moves and I see everything all around me like it's a movie playing. I don't feel "real" or present, and yet somehow I'm there. When people talk, sometimes I don't hear a word they're saying. My brain is focused on "why is he / she...

Since I am new here and just saw this thread I thought I would reply in case you have chance to read. Did you know that there is a federal housing program out there that can help you with the cost of your rent if you can't afford it yourself? And that you can also apply for Soc security...

It sounds like others take it for granted that you are stable and healthy. It also sounds like you are burnt out from expending all that energy to avoid what's going on inside. It's catching up with you isn't it? It always does. The harder you work to get away from it, the more it haunts you...

I do have a therapist .. but my life has been turned upside down by a recent death and other serious stressors prior to that .... so discussions of what happened to me have been put on the back burner in order to get through what's happening now. Thank you for your reply

I was physically/sexually assaulted by someone I was out on a first date with. Never saw it coming, the crazy, intense 360 change in his personality ..... Flashbacks still haunt and I still run from them. Some are just so intense and I don't know how to safely process them even today. I have...

I would say for me, when I first went to counseling -- it was a trigger for vivid, intense, flashbacks and dissociation. I couldn't handle it so I stopped going. Nothing ever got better and I felt like I was drowning in grief, so I tried again. More often than not, I could not verbally...