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One of my first "episodes" found me taking my pillow and blanket and sleeping in my car. That was the only place I felt I could see someone coming and be safe. There are too many dark places in a house that a perceived attack might come from, and it is important for you to realize your sister...

Noah, I am glad anything I could offer might be useful. Hang in there until your therapist gets back, but it seems like you are making great efforts on your own! I searched for many years for the answers to all of my issues, and every piece of information helped me understand myself more. I...

Hi LizardViolet Your boyfriend seems to be like my son... I went through EMDR therapy, and am a SERIOUS believer. I now have a completely re-defined view about therapy, and after my own journey feel as if talk-therapy is just a temporary band-aid type solution for PTSD sufferers, and if...

Hi Lightanddarkness... In my EMDR, by about the 9th session, I really had a feel for it, and I would say that you don't actually have to say the words out loud for it to be effective. I think that the spoken words are more for the therapist to get a sense of where you are and if you need to be...

Therapy of any kind is almost another trauma in the beginning. PTSD sufferers are so used to trying to control their world that it creeps into therapy sessions too. Your search for experiences to provide you with "flight or fight" will continue as long as you are unaware you are putting...

I have a kind of radical message, only based on my own experience, but hopefully helpful. I had so many different talk therapists through the years, and each one helped (some hindered) my journey in some way by giving me knowledge. I would cry during sessions (never crying anywhere else...

After reading some of these posts, I feel extremely lucky to have had the EMDR experience I did. I knew nothing about it when I found my therapist, just had reached a desperate place and looked for a PTSD counselor. Her explanation of how it worked made complete sense to me, so I went with it...