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Okay, I've gone through EMDR to process through other traumatic past events, but I just recently admitted to being sexually abused. My therapist wants to go through another round of EMDR, and I'm terrified for a variety of reasons. One being, how little detail can I get away with saying. Because...

I'm trying to mentally prep myself for what is to come, because I know it's going to be triggering. Because of an emergency, I'm packing my bags and headed to my hometown to be with my brother for a few days. It's the same place where all the abuse occured, and if I hadn't left a couple years...

I need to vent. Majorly. So, my husband and I met with a marriage counselor a few years ago. I didn't feel like she did a whole lot for us, but whatever, things improved as life circumstances improved. It was shortly after I left marriage counseling that I began with the therapist I am...

Question, does anyone have an resource recommendations to help family better understand ptsd/ what it feels like to live with ptsd? My husband and I have recently started discussing how I feel like we live on different planets because I process the world and live in it so differently than I did...

Okay, so my therapist has decided that I need to completely take over therapy sessions, and she is going to remain quiet for the most part. This started last session. She interjected a few times to get me to look deeper at things or analyze more, but I was on my own. She told me that if it...

PTSD has completely thrown my marriage for a loop to say the very least. A lot about me has changed in the last three years, and it is difficult and confounding for my family to understand. I don't know why I can't stand physical touch anymore, but I can't. I've always had a bit of a space...

So, the holidays turned out to be somewhat difficult to emotionally navigate. However, I've been struggling ever since to articulate what happened during Christmas dinner. I've always dissociated, but this time it felt very different then how I normally experience it. And to be honest, it...

I figured an anonymous forum is a good place to ask questions I'm too embarrassed to bring up in an actual therapy session. I've recently been diagnosed with DID, and I guess I'm searching for possible causations. I can't figure out if I'm "normal" or not. So help me out here. At what are...

I love the idea of a trauma diary. I write all of the time, so having somewhere to put it all seems therapeutic. I've only had ptsd for a couple years, and I'm still struggling to learn how to cope. Despite the ptsd diagnosis, I've probably suffered from minor ptsd symptoms since childhood...

I've noticed I'm doing it, and that I'm scared of her even though she hasn't given me any reason to be. I think emdr might have something to do with it. We've finally hit some of the core issues. We're taking a break for a couple weeks cause I was/am having a really hard time with it. I know I...

Okay when doing inner child work/talking about inner child/ etc., is your inner child a separate entity in your head? Like mine is a little girl who hides under a table and refuses to come out. She's me, but when I was younger, probably preschool age. In the past, she has been horribly afraid...

I've just finished my first two EMDR sessions tackling big trauma. But both times, my mind keeps going back to things in my childhood instead of the event that caused my PTSD and what I actually want to work on. I'm trying to be patient. Last session, an image came up of my dad beating me in a...