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I was just reading a blog post, where the writer was talking about a therapy session and at the end of the post they described the way they left -they always had toast (obviously a very different building to where I go) and then they said goodbye and lef, back fully to the door and their hands...

I don't make my poor T's life easy!! She's been very patient with me in allowing me to find my way in therapy. In our first preliminary session I went along mentioning the Pottergate Center for Trauma and Dissociation because of everything internally - which I was very vague with her about. A...

To all of those who experience dissociative states with child parts/alters etc, (however you feel comfortable describing it), what do you do with grown up tasks. This could be something like driving, or general employment or even being out and about in public? Do you have any safeguards in place...

I was just browsing the "coming soon" section of the cinema for my sister and saw that there was a Ted 2 being released later this year - remembering how much @anthony loved it and incase he didn't know - the sequel is soon to be released!

I'm having a problem with my younger sister (she's nearly 6 and I'm 24) with whom I live. She has virtually no understanding of boundaries and is also really "cheeky", stubborn and strong-willed for her age. I'm not sure how much is boundary related, how much is being naughty and how much it is...

My therapist has suggested I should have a clock in my room to help me know "when" I am as I struggle hugely with disorienting confusion about this very frequently. For me however, even virtually silent ticking drives my anxiety and obsession levels through the roof and LED lit clocks are relate...

I know they're little in the grand scheme of things, but they're big to me right now! I've had two big forms to fill in recently and I've finally done them both. I even did them without too much help, I'm so relieved! Also, I've started teaching myself British Sign Language, I learned the...

This statement and several others similar to it were in part, the focus of my therapy session this week. We were talking much along the lines of philosophical questioning whilst at the same time trying to relate it all back into the way I dissociate and avoid my way through each day, week after...

My PTSD has become an all consuming part of my life - it's always there and even if it doesn't define who I am, it does make a large percentage of me. With most people I have absolutely nothing in common with them and struggle at more than anything than very brief and simple niceties - and even...

I'm sure there must be some overlap between the two, either that or the same thing? I've always had a tough time understanding what is and isn't a trigger. I think if something triggers a flashback/hyper-vigilance/intense dissociation, or in some other way reminds you of your trauma hence...

I know this is posted a bit late after it's release, but I'm hoping some of you might enjoy this (satirical) piece for a laugh.... "New Study Shows People With Panic Disorders Respond Poorly To Being Locked In Underwater Elevators"

There is news that the Tories are discussing cutting benefits for people with mental health problems who aren't on medication or getting therapy. This is despite the massive cuts to all health services meaning that most people don't get therapy any and if you're lucky enough to it's limited to...

My father and the worst other abuser both shared variants of the same name and I’ve known others by that name with abusive traits, both in my family (the name had been passed on through the generations) and out of it. Even one of the worst bullies I had, had a female equivalent of the name. Now...

So I saw in another thread and was surprised, I didn't want to take it of topic. When I'm in a really bad place or triggered, sometimes I feel the overwhelming urge to cut my hair, the urge to do this is much stronger when my hair is growing longer, I end up cutting it or buzzing it off with...

When ever I've found people with higher numbers of body piercings or other body modifications, I've found out very often they have suffered abuse and often during their childhood. I've heard reasons far ranging for example; Piercings were a way for me to take ownership back over my body, every...

At what point do you just give up trying to wrap your head around your trauma(s), what issues stem from each individual trauma and how many issues stem from multiple traumas? How do you rationalise that you are in fact likable and good when so many people have told and shown you that the...

I have NO IDEA where to put this - in my head or on the forum. It's about a discussion I had with a relative yesterday, but the side effect of it was a horrible flashback, dissociation and seizure (possibly dissociative - need to go to GP for tests) for which I ended up in hospital. When I cut...

When I was younger (early teens) I was always told I looked older for my age. Now I have the opposite, twice this week I've been asked my age and told I look about 18, maybe younger (I'm nearly 25) by two very different people. Also I've been told by several others in the past year or so. I've...

So I've always known biting my nails has been a bad habit - but I've never cared, it doesn't do anyone any harm and nails really creep me out. In the past few years I've noticed it getting worse, bleeding frequently and gnawing down on to the nail bed so today I decided to google other nervous...

In the UK, as far as I'm aware there is no way to fully change your identity unless you go through witness protection - this is typically not available to people who are fleeing abuse and there is no other way to fully change your identity like there is in the US. You can only change your name...

I know @anthony keeps a lot of info about the up-to date DSM diagnostic criteria on help articles and I'm sure I remember a thread when the DSM-V came out discussing the differences between the DSM-IV and DSM-V but I wanted to provide a list of the DSM-V criteria as I found them a useful and...

At the end of the worst part of my abuse I had about a week and a half where I was unable to talk. I don't remember most of it but I couldn't force any words out. I dissociated most of it away curled up in the fetal position. Exhausted. I remember the sunlight and falling asleep sitting upright...

One of the many reasons I'm too scared to take my abusers to court is because of limited sentencing. I'm scared not only of the court case itself but of what would happen when they get out - even if we did relocate, I wouldn't feel that I wouldn't be findable by one abuser. Today I was reading...

I don't whether this is Flashback/Anxiety or Therapy related - so if staff think it should be moved please feel free to. I had a rough therapy session today and went further into the one memory that we've been working on, than I ever have before. At one point in this memory I was being orally...

I had been taking 30mg Mirtazapine since late December with some pretty poor results. About two-three weeks ago, I was put on 60mg Duloxetine, but still had the Mirtazapine at full dose - wow! It was like the Duloxetine fixed the Mirtazapine and they made a party in my head. I was amazing. I was...