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For anyne wanting to dabble in self administration of CBT, I highly recommend this book. Dead Link Removed One of the greatest realisations this book gave me is the concept of self esteem and how developmental trauma relate. This book lightly touchs on why the loss of sense of self happens due...

Sometimes , people focus on the word "child" a little and miss the point. I think the reason child has been brought into it is because it's recognised that 1. This damage occurred when you were a child, and 2. If you talk to your child, you will exercise compassion. If the whole child thing...

Initially just for Anxiety... Work related stress type stuff.I wasn't even aware of the trauma aspect until I was diagnosed with PTSD. I just went there for CBT to help me with my day to day stuff. Yeah, I don't doubt you can have PTSD without the flashbacks, I just don't understand it well...

Thanks...You may be right... Crazy to think someone of that stature would let their ego impede, sure it happens though This is where my thinking starts to digress. I don't think trauma work needs to be slow and long winded. I think the psychodynamic approach to trauma (person centred) is slow...

The title of your post caught my eye, I've recently posted another discussion where I've talked of something similar. It's an interesting point you raise, and almost impossible to know. I approached a trauma therapist who specialised in CBT and developmental trauma including the treatment of...

Thanks, the fact you were even able to do this shows the contrast between therapists (yours and mine) DSM was off limits to me!

I do and I think you're spot on. I remember coming home from therapy one day and I actually remember saying to myself "who can you trust if you can't trust yourself" now I think about it, I'd said it at the time because my confidence was being undermined....I shudder at the thought that I even...

Especially given we hadn't even gone into my past much at all... Think about it, we were at the skills building stage. It felt like a hell of a lot if assumptions were being made. Going further on this (and this is the other big doubt) I don't get flashbacks, painful memories, trauma memories...

Thanks for your support. The problem with this is that when in this position, you're never actually sure if your judgement can be trusted... And even more so if you're made to feel that you're wrong. In this case something was telling me to move away from this person so I did. I'm keen to know...

Yes, next T not session! Yeah what got me was the completely commercial attitude that I was now indebted because of a 15 minute phone call. I understand a treatment plan per se may not be applicable, I'm going to need more though next time starting with at least the outline of the approach...

This is a good point, something I've been critically aware of because It's not something I want to be nor appreciate in others. The behaviours that have been cited as "controlling" are as follows....Self Research: gathering information and background including insight on PTSD including...

Text my T today and said I had concerns and wanted to speak over the phone so I could affirm to myself the treatment plan and direction were heading in... Explained I'm 10 sessions in and still don't know the type of therapy I'm actually undergoing... Also explained I didn't understand the basis...

Thank you to everyone who has replied, it has been eye opening, I didn't even know about the Rogerian /person centred style. This sounds alot like the style my therapist uses. In your opinion, if this is his style, should he have made me aware of this? I just feel like we talk and do nothing...

Very simple but a hell of alot behind what you just said..thanks, makes alot of sense.

Hi, Wondering if anyone has advice on this? I've done over ten sessions with my therapist and I have this feeling we haven't even started yet...also when I've asked what type of therapy my T has in store for me, he doesn't define what were going to try out...... or methods or the type of...

I was Diagnosed with PTSD 4-5 Months ago and have been in therapy since . This was due to developmental trauma. The timing couldn't be worse as I'm now going through an excruciating break up and in reflection have had terrible anger (way higher than in the past), abandonment issues and literally...

I'm assuming he has the PTSD then?

I'm sorry to hear.It's always going to hurt, I'm going through it now. Sounds like you've got some really good insight and you're mind is made up , you have the urgency but just need the follow through. Are you ending this over your issues or his? I noticed that in relationship Ive had the...

And to add to this, when your diagnosed it's very easy to reflectively sink into a hole and blame the PTSD for the majority of the conflicts... Whilst it was relevant, it wasn't the cause.

Weeks,later, much reflection and I see now that I've probably been blindly blaming the PTSD diagnosis for the majority of the issues when truth is it's not that way. It's amazing how diagnosis at such a time can skew your view.

That's not true. There is a way, and it can have a sh*tload of silver linings.

Makes Thanks.. Makes sense now.Not to hijack but I understand PTSD is considered an anxiety disorder right? So how common are anxiety disorders not related to trauma? Would this be like someone having a chemical imbalance or specific fear?

I'm lost, has the OP been through therapy and ruled out having PTSD ?

Agreed, though without going into it all I can see she wasn't acting with Malice through any if it, though I still felt violated I can see she was lost and it's led to some poor decisions she since regrets in... She's such an honest person otherwise, it's like stress combined with pain and...

Lol. Today we had a really good discussion and it so much clearer the harm my PTSD had done over the last 2 years, specifically, my inability to accept things without challenging them. This has to some degree been the cause for her abandonment feelings, I really feel for her, this sh*t...