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    Other How my poker loses are related to my childhood trauma?

    No, my therapist is not EMDR therapist. I connected to this EMDR therapist 1 week before my current one, but she didn't have available session hours in the next months, but I got an email that she has some open spots right now. She is a lot more experianced than my current one, although I...
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    Other How my poker loses are related to my childhood trauma?

    Hey, I'd like to ask you what do you think of EMDR therapy? Has anyone here tried it?
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    Other How my poker loses are related to my childhood trauma?

    Thank you! That's very helpful information.
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    Other How my poker loses are related to my childhood trauma?

    Thank you for your response. The reason why I think It could be PTSD is the intense feelings i get sometimes. Many of those "flashbacks" which I talk about, end with intense crying. After that, after that "release", I feel great. In the past I was feeling ashamed and angry because I didn't know...
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    Other How my poker loses are related to my childhood trauma?

    No, i haven't been diagnosed by a health care professional. It's just what I read, 2 books ( Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw and Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker, and a lot of information in internet. But all of the symptoms of Self-Love-Deficit...
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    I just had my first session with a therapist. But we didn't have the chance to go so deep, cuz there was no time. I have another one after 4-5 days. I don't really understand what do you mean by "losing/missing out". Can you explain? It could be an addiction. Just in my mind things are so...
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    Other How my poker loses are related to my childhood trauma?

    I don't think that the case. I've been playing profesionally for 4-5 years, and I don't play cuz I want to or I need to, just because it's profitable. I mean I've tried some other things to do, like selling stuff, marketing, etc, so In my eyes i can't see myself like an addict. Recently I read a...
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    Other How my poker loses are related to my childhood trauma?

    Hello. I'm a professional poker player. Soon I realized that I'm co-dependent and have symptoms of PTSD also. I can't find the link between my poker loses and the flashbacks. Sometimes when I lose even some unsignificant part of my poker money or even just a single hand, I just feel the...
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