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My therapist just got a sand bag i put on my lap. I love it. I have gone ahead and bought a weighted blanket. Another friend of mind is a trauma psychologist and she has a client who wears a weighted vest during emir.

Yes I was molested by my Alateen facilitator. I understand it helps some people but I am terrified of it.

@Swift thanks for that information. I start neurofeedback in a few weeks. I was found out in my town we have one of the best places in the united stated, as the psychologist has worked with Bessal Van Der Kolk. I am attached to my therapist but she suggested this as the tinnitus started the same...

My understanding is trauma sensitive yoga is done by a yoga instructor that has had training in how to work with movement in the body with people who have had trauma. In my town the woman that offers these classes is also a therapist. I know she does not use straps during classes. Certain poses...

I struggle with this too. Each time I get the urge I make myself do something different for 10 minutes. Most of the time I also turn to games, Solitaire. Or I go get in my car and drive around if i need to get away from my computer. Now that the weather is warmer I also go walk around my...

Posting on here is a great way to start getting support.

I am sorry to hear about your experiences. I live with recovered memories too that haunt me. I encourage you to find a therapist. Are you in the United States? Do you have access to therapy?

Don't be sorry. I was doing EMDR two weeks ago on the same thing and I had to stop. Love hearing about it being cycled out too!

seeing this made me think when I was younger I babysat an autistic girl who loved pickle juice. If I took my eyes off her for a second she would run to the fridge and start drinking straight up pickle juice.

Yes I do. Only when talking about my trauma strangely my forehead and eyes will twitch. It is really weird. I can feel it and my t can see it will bring my attention to it. Nothing I can do. Only happens when addressing those issues.

a heartfelt thank you!

For me it is smoking pot. I do not smoke on my therapy day but that is it. It is the only way I knew how to dealing with feeling. I don't drink at all. She has supported me in taking an anti-depressant and gabapentin because I am also depressed and get overwhelmed easily.

I have been lately telling myself to do the opposite of whatever I am feeling. I had a shut down moment last week during an EMDR session that focused on oral r**e. My warm t that I am attached to was very caring more then her normal self and I panicked. Stopped talking and checked out for the...

I am gay (female) too and struggle with it. Abused by a female and her boyfriend twice my age. I was 15-18. I wish I was straight. Thanks for having this discussion.

I am sorry you are experiencing this. I bet half a dozen people are going to write the best thing to do is to talk to your t about it. I have struggled with the same feelings but have not talked to my t about it yet. Just this week I emailed her about it for the first time after about a year of...

It helped me realize how my body feels before I disassociate. I was no where near being able to do TRE. I went for nine or ten sessions until the therapist said something very inappropriate. I wish I could of continued with her but she was trying to get me to attach in an unhealthy way. Which...

During that time I was experience some pretty intense outbursts, so not typical of me. My r*pist contacted me after 20 years and I lost it. I went from pretty even keel to a train wreak over the course of a few months. I am aware of my own addiction tendencies and had huge hesitations trying...

Hi I am a 44 yr old female with PTSD. I have taken gabapentin for a year now. I take 900 in the morning 900 in afternoon and 1200 at night. I have never felt like a zombie. I did not have side effects, I sometimes don't take my morning or afternoon dose and I don't feel any withdrawal symptoms...

With me too. Groomed by a female (I am female) molested by her and r*ped by her boyfriend. As she was teaching me 'to be an adult'. It has f#cked with my sexuality. Impossible to have romantic relationships. Dissociated during sex and become a robot....I hate it. I feel more hypo sexual then hyper.

I am self employed making $45,000/yr. and qualify for ACA subsidy. My insurance is $350/month but my co pay for therapy is $10 for therapist and $40 for a specialist for me that is a mental health nurse practitioner for my meds. I am so thankful to have this.

I want to but my T does not want me to. She said any contact could bring back floods of memories. I lived with a woman from ages 16-18 who over saw my rapes with her boyfriend. I wish I could confront both of them in court like the brave women with Larry Nasser. I wish I could beat them with a...

My t has me initiate also. If I say I want a hug she will give one. If I don't say it, it does not happen and it is not awkward. 3 years with her and maybe 3 hugs 3 weeks in a row then done. I prefer when I leave when she says things like: See you next week now go home and get your shit done...

How long have you been working with her?

I can text my t as she know I would never do it unless I was in or near crisis. She knows I usually reach out to friends first but there are some topics that I have only spoken about with her. The text always just says: "Can we touch base today?". I never text anything personal because texting...