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I planned a six-month detox from lamotrigine after being on it 5 years. I started at 100mg and reduced by 10 mg, waited until I didn't feel any withdrawal effects (headache, irritability, and insomnia), and then reduced again. The key is to reduce by small amounts at a time. I had previously...

My best coping skill is "glimmers". I live with PTSD, Panic Disorder, and Major Depression. I am grateful to have a small place in the country that provides me with many challenges and distractions to calm my chronic hyperarousal. At daybreak, I feed the livestock. The animals depend on me so I...

Thank you for starting this thread! I love talking about vegetable gardening. I have two little greenhouses that I use to start plants in. It has been so cold this spring that when I couldn't start plants outside, I moved the greenhouses into the house. Its working out well, although it looks...

I just finished reading Janina Fisher's Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors - Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation. It took me a while because like you I have PTSD and I fragment easily. This book provided me with insight into both myself and the treatment process. My therapist is...

For me, I don't want to ever forget that my therapist is a paid professional trained in the art of developing and maintaining a working relationship with clients. I never let myself forget this; I follow the clinic's rules, call my therapist by her formal name (Mrs. _____), and keep my own...

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I am so grateful for your post and to know that I am not alone with this issue. I'm sorry that you have to go thru this, but it meant so much to me to read your words and know that there was another person experiencing the same thing. Thank you!

1) The longer it lasts the more frustrated and dysregulated I become, and I end up taking medication to calm my nervous system. When the medication wears off, I can talk, but my voice is flat and I stutter. 2) My body is immediately activated (jerking and trembling) when any trauma content...

My ability to talk often stops when I'm triggered during a conversation, flashback or during therapy. I can't talk no matter how much I try to get the words out. Sometimes it's only for a few minutes and then I can loudly blurt out part of a word and then with great effort a few more blurts...

I have severe PTSD and Panic Disorder, therapists and psychiatrists have tried a many different treatment modalities to help me. Over the last three years I've made very little progress despite everyone's best efforts. During the first year my somatic symptoms were severe and I mostly froze and...

My therapist is patient with me. The pressure to make progress is mine and I do feel ashamed that I'm not making progress.

My therapist is utilizing Sensorimotor psychotherapy to treat my PTSD and Panic Disorder. I'm currently in the Sliver of Memory phase (exposure). When I'm asked to focus on the trauma I frequently freeze, cry, can't speak and my body jerks and trembles. My therapist has requested that I write...