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Hi everyone Sorry for the delay in replying, timezone of Australia really doesn't help... @sun seeker - I was paraphrasing - he's not phrasing the questions in a mean or nasty way...his point seems to be that I don't express or "feel" things because I'm too defensive to take my "wall" down...

Hello, Ok, my T is a subscriber to the "what are you physically feeling and where in your body" philosophy of whatever it is he's treating me for... This is very challenging for me, as I really do live entirely in my head, and never have considered myself a "physical" kind of person. Most of...

Thank you very much everyone for your insights and ideas. I really appreciate it. I'll try talking to him about it along the following lines: a. Making clear the distinction between "thinking" and "doing" b. That for me, it's largely a comfort thing (yes, I'm strange); (If he seems to "get" the...

hi digger, sorry, new to the acronyms - yes suicidal ideation. Would also appreciate your feedback on my follow-up question to moonbeam. M

Hi Moonbeam, thanks for responding, I appreciate it. Do you think it may freak him out if i know how I would do it? sorry, i know that's morbid.

Hello... Came onto a touchy subject with my T today...suicide. By way of context, I've made 3 attempts, the last one was involuntarily hospitalised for 3 weeks. Hospital for me - was the opposite of therapeutic - in fact it was outright traumatising. I sent my T a book I had written that...

Thank you both @shrinkingviolet and @WildMermaid. So sorry, i hadn't "seen" that you had responded to this...! There is a T that I am seeing, and will probably bring this up next time I see him. I was "upset" by what happened before, I don't doubt that, but my current concern is that I just...

Hello. Hope everyone's well... Wanted to pick people's brain about something, as not really a topic of polite conversation with most people. In 2011 I went on a couple of dates with a guy, he came back to my place...he inevitably tried it on...but didn't stop when I told him to. So, that...

Oh...sorry...my therapist...!!!!

Hey Solara, Thank you for responding. I'm very new to all of this, so don't really get the "crossing the line" part...(genuinely don't know much about the whole etiquette here). Don't think he was trying to say *I* am helpless...but that it was my state of mind at that point in the...

Hi guys, Ok...I have no idea if other people do this with their therapists or not... But my guy has this thing where he's trying to get me to "physically feel" and be able to identify and describe physical sensation of "anger"... The problem is - I either don't feel anything...or, whatever I do...

@theotherside Thank you very much for sharing some of your story, I'm very sorry to hear that - and yes, although our situation/circumstances are different, the way of thinking does sound very similar. It's a degree of comfort to know at least I'm not the only one thinking like that. @anonymous...

Hi Anarchy, That's a lot of information, and a lot of wide-ranging points to consider! Thank you. I confess I've always been somewhat skeptical about "biologically based" explanations for such things. I've had issues for example with the monoamine hypothesis of depression, which was rammed down...

Hi Saria, Thanks for responding. I guess I don't like labels for a number of reasons, (i) there's a lot of them, they keep 'breeding'! (ii) when you list them all out, it's quite depressing, and makes me just feel like a complete basket case, damaged goods. Some of them I just don't recognise...

Hi Unraveling1, Thank you for the reply. Like you, I thought everyone's house was the same as ours. After all, on the outside, we would seem like the "perfect" family on multiple fronts - there's was probably the same behind closed doors, no? I've tried speaking to other people I know, and I...

Hi Justmehere, Both I guess, they're interrelated...when I look at some of the descriptions of "impacts/effects of C-PTSD" a number of them fit. But, C-PTSD has an assumption of "abuse" and I don't consider what happened in our family in those extremes. Don't get me wrong, not "great" by any...

Hello Not entirely sure where to begin with this... I'm in a bit of a surreal situation, where it looks like my therapist/psychologist is treating me for some form of PTSD/C-PTSD...I can see this is what he's doing...I've read enough on PTSD/C-PTSD that there are some things which sound...