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I’m nervous. Can someone tell me what it’s like? Did it produce flashbacks for you? Has it not worked for some people?

I’m getting closer and closer to being ready to undergo EMDR. I think what frustrates me is that I don’t know where the trauma originates from since I’ve lived with symptoms of childhood PTSD my whole life. I wouldn’t know how to target any big T traumas when I don’t have a definitive memory to...

I’m tired of being nice or honest with people because I end up getting shit on anyway.

I’ve been feeling very angry and irritable these past few weeks. I think I’m becoming depressed right now and am starting to doubt myself and my intuition. Mainly because I can’t pinpoint what transpired my trauma since I was so young when symptoms started to manifest. I had to be around 4 or 5...

I keep looking back and think “What if I don’t have PTSD stemming from childhood, and what if I wasn’t sexually abused? I’m not even sure if I was sexually abused in the first place anyway. What if the panic from painful penetration was only because of those conditions?” The reason I’m...

I still need to do my research, but I’ve read online that trauma from the age of 5 and under can significantly affect brain development. I spent most of my childhood with maladaptive daydreaming, dissociating, having fight-or-flight responses, and night terrors. I also had academic setbacks...

I hate this so much. Everything is messed up.

I feel very strongly that I have to keep my new diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder hidden. I say that because I feel like if I’d tell someone they’d either deny its existence in me or they’d avoid me like the plague for seeing me as dangerous.

About two years ago a veil and a rug have been pulled out from on top and under me. All my life I’ve been traumatized, but was made out to believe that there was something inherently bad or wrong with me as a child. My personality has been warped due to the trauma I dealt with as a child. I’ve...

First I started noticing negative feelings that have been coming up. Then I basically went down a spiral where I would have these crying spells. My thoughts slowly started turning towards the thought of harming myself and then of harming my father for all the times he assaulted me. Now I just...

I can’t say that I’m surprised, but that doesn’t make it any less upsetting. Personality disordered traits tend to run on my mother’s side of the family. I was raised by two narcissists. My mother has traits of NPD, but unsurprisingly would not get treatment. I am currently medicated for...

A lot of it involves getting out of my head, but that’s all I’ve ever done was be inside my head. I overanalyze, intellectualize, and overthink my way out of feeling things. Part of me wants to just talk, but my therapist feels like I think too much and that focusing too much on thoughts is...

Therapist: *tells me to focus on mindfulness meditations and the 5-4-3-2-1 technique* Me: *tells her I struggle with internet addiction* Therapist: *suggests I only spend 30 minutes of my time using social media* Since I’ve gotten that down, I’ve experienced a lot of anxiety. Now I resort to...

I’ve been reading the book “Complex-PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving” by Pete Walker. One of the things that stood out to me was when it mentioned the struggle of perfectionism and the self-hatred that abides by it. All my life I’ve been too afraid of being imperfect or having flaws. I was...

To make a long story short, I grew up with religious narcissists for parents. My mother has manipulated me my entire life and it’s been only recently that I found out I’ve had PTSD since I was 3 or 4 and developed C-PTSD at 5. When I was 28, I got retraumatized by someone simply from being...

I’ve been triggered these past few weeks and have been having somatic responses in my body. Ever since I was a teenager, I would lie in my bed and just doomscroll all day. This would be in response to my somatic responses because I did not know what was happening or why I felt the way I did. I...

Last week I had two family members tell me that I had to make up with another member for basically hinting at the fact that I don’t want to talk to them. I denied wanting to wish them a happy birthday, because they deny my trauma existing despite only being part of a fraction of my life. I am...

For the past several years, I have struggled with emotional numbness and loss of pleasure in a multitude of activities. Because of this, I have been diagnosed with Major Depression before I received a diagnosis for C-PTSD. When I was a small child I felt happiness and pleasure in my...

Seriously, imagine realizing you may have been looked at like this and that same person thought “Damn I’d tap that”.

Throughout my whole life I’ve had developmental trauma since I was 4 at most. That quickly turned into Complex-PTSD once I turned 5 years old. My grandmother, on my mother’s side, has only been part of my life for three years out of the three decades I’ve lived due to her living halfway across...

After years of struggling, I finally managed to upkeep my apartment. Before then I was a total wreck and unable to function, but now that I’m receiving mental help I’ve been functioning a lot better.

My uncle had a falling out with my narcissistic parents for wanting to keep my grandmother from visiting his children. My grandma flew all the way from South Africa and doesn’t get to spend time with her grandkids that often. Being the narcissist that mother was, she wanted to go on vacation...

I finished having a session with my therapist yesterday and ate more than usual. We have been discussing how food is a numbing agent for my emotions and I don’t know how I’m going to get through this. My stomach really hurts and I want to stop but I can’t seem to.

I’ve stopped taking my mood stabilizers because I don’t experience mania, so I didn’t believe I needed them. A psychiatrist diagnosed me with BP2, as well as PTSD and DPDR. I do know that I have major depressive episodes, but that is different from bipolar disorder. I’ve read that mood...

I wonder if I have sexual trauma because my mom might have suggested I was SA’d. She brought up how Satanic Ritual Abuse is a thing when I was 5 and I don’t know if she mentioned sexual abuse to me or not as it was so long ago. A lot of supposed SA is included in that. Last time I regressed was...