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Well, I don´t know, it seems like hair-splitting business to my mind. From what I understood is, what the difference between a trauma and a difficult or painfull event (like "having your boyfriend dump you") is, is that the brain stores it differently. With trauma, the brain is overwhelmed and...

"An adjustment disorder (AD) occurs when an individual is unable to adjust to or cope with a particular stressor, like a major life event. Since people with this disorder normally have symptoms that depressed people do, such as general loss of interest, feelings of hopelessness and crying, this...

What do you mean by that? Nope, that is not why. This is something she "newly" discovered in one session, when I was triggered and dissociated. Only after that she said it was trauma and she newly added this. She also said she didn´t have personal experience with trauma, but had other patients...

abstract, I don´t know for sure. My therapist doesn´t talk much diagnoses. I know that she had to write something to the insurance company. In the beginning she wrote history of eating disorder and adjustment disorder. Only 4 or 5 months later, she diagnosed "trauma" and sent that to the...

radicalgratitude, thank you for your answer! I found it very interesting, what you´re saying! Exactly! I was once in a clinic for eating disorders, when I was already back on my normal weight though, and I definitely felt out of place. There was a lot of talking about people´s parents...

Psychoanalyst, yes right. That´s what I meant. I don´t know, that is just the regulation set by the insurance companies

Hey Hashi, well- that is correct. I am not seeing a trauma specialist at the moment, my T is specialized on eating disorders. Yes, as I said, I read here and on numerous other places that people said: it´s really beneficial if not necessary to see a trauma specialist. I am not hoping for a...

I agree with you completely. However, what he said was that a therapist specialized on trauma, was like a general physician specialized on colds....

I was told today by a psychoanalytic that every therapist can treat trauma and there weren´t many trauma therapists. I find this confusing because it´s the opposite of what I´ve read and heard many times. He said that only when you´ve got single trauma and flashbacks it COULD be helpful to...

I´m sorry it took me so long to reply. I was overwhelmed the couple of days ago and needed a break from all things concerning my inside... Hm, I think my T has done a lot for me in the past, even if it wasn´t really trauma related or much of trauma therapy, I think she still helped me a big...

thanks for your reply, StrongerNow, this is how I feel. Hashi, I was thinking the same thing right from the beginning, but I was very very insecure and unsure and confused about everything, so I thought "who am I to know?" Right in our first session I remember telling her about my difficulties...

Yes, exactly. I didn´t have appointments at 3 ;). No, this only started about 2 and a half years ago. I´ve had an eating disorder for about a year or so before that. It started 2 and half year ago, got better, but somehow it has gotten a lot worse suddenly at the beginning of December 2013. I...

arfie, I think you´re right, too. I keep forgetting that. I´ve noticed at times when I´m more relaxed things seem less stressful or difficult for me and in times of big stress, more things that were managable a week ago, become difficult. Good point.

thank you for your answers! Well, you´re right. I do have issues with my mother. More than one actually. My mother´s an alcoholic. I think when I was younger, she didn´t want me to grow older and always treated me like I was a lot younger than I really was. I sensed that and acted that way as...

My T said my not feeling autonomous and being scared of obligations (in terms of appointments), because I feel like I belong to the person I have an appointment with, has to do with an issue I´ve had with my mother before I was 3 years old. It might be true, I have little memory of before I was...

I would LOVE to have 2 therapist. I think it would be great to have her to feel comfortable with to talk to about other things besides trauma and a specialist, that can be more clinic but experienced that I can work on my trauma with... Why are you embarrassed about that? Do they know about...

hey russh, thanks for your reply. Yes, mine is emotional, too. I guess everyone´s is... Even if you get physically injured it´s the emotional impact of it that gives you PTSD.

I´ve been with my therapist for over a year. I want to say that I tried about 20 therapists or something before her and I didn´t feel right with ANY one of them before I got to this one. She is not a trauma therapist, and even though she did diagnose me with trauma a couple of months ago, I get...

Well, thank you for all your answers. I´m a little confused now, if what my therapist is doing is a good thing or a not good enough/strange thing :/ Yes, she is a psychotherapist and licensed and no she is not a trauma therapist but she says she has experience with other trauma patients. Yes...

I read it in "Trauma and Recovery" by Judith Herman, which is supposed to be very good and accurate. It says you have to do this to not just "talk" about it in a detached manner but really feel all the emotions attached to it. I also read it about therapy approaches. Well, of course I KNOW...

I have read a lot about trauma work. We just recently started to go into it in therapy. I start to talk about "memories" and my therapists cuts right in and puts a picture less frightening and less horrific in my mind. She does this in asking, what would you have needed? What would have been...

Yea, you know I used to think that it might just be my body because really, it didn´t make any sense to me. But I discovered if I had a really relaxing day or when I find a thought that is really really relaxing and good (doesn´t happen too often though) then it goes away- so I guess it´s really...

Does anyone experience this aswell? I really don´t know why I have it. Sometimes I do worry about things, other times, more recently, I just close my eyes and want to go to sleep not thinking about anything bothering and my heart just starts racing and I´m awake again, even though I´m tired...

Hey storycat! Your post could almost be written by me, I can really relate! I don´t know for sure, but I feel very postive that you CAN be as happy as before. maybe even more. Because when you do, you have proven and gained big strength!

" I will probably never be the person I was, but as I heal I can work to be a new version of myself, one that I love even more than I loved Pre-PTSD me." that´s nice, piratelady :)