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My wife's birthday is next week and she really wants a vr headset. I am more than happy to oblige 🤣. After browsing through some game choices I realized this may be an opportunity for some supplemental treatment options. There are many apps/videos for her anxiety exposure and I'm wondering what...
Has your inner child/parts work evolved over time?
I am curious because the inner children I've identified so far are starting to shift in what they represent. At first they were individuals, now they feel like encompass full areas of trauma. For example;
My 3 year old was just that, a 3 year...
What are the signs of early sexual abuse? How do they show up and at what ages? What is the appropriate age for sexual curiosities?
I think I may have made a devastating connection in my past and I'm attempting to be as careful as possible right now not to tear myself apart.
1. At approx 6-7...
I've been learning about the differences between hyperarousal and hypervigilance today. I seem to fit somewhere into both of those classifications to some degree but what really struck me was an article on Emotional Hypervigilance.
You know that phrase "take the temperature of the room?" Well...
Being so new to cptsd treatment can be very confusing for me. Heres a few things that affect me daily.
I suffer from crippling toxic shame. The type of shame that stops me mid sentence. My body floods with adrenaline and my face gets purple. At times, especially recently, I almost pass out. My...
Being new to trauma recovery and this forum I'm a bit confused as to where I should start.
12 step recovery points me to moral inventories and defects of characters. (This worked very well... until it didn't anymore)
Sex therapy points me to triangular familial relationship patterns that I...
Hello all,
I'm here because I need to know that people have felt the way I do now and have recovered. After 10 years of clean time, multiple intense rounds of 12 step work, and several therapists I have finally come to terms with the fact that I MUST venture into my childhood emotionally...