The best thing would be to straight up ask if your therapist is dumping you.
If so, ask him/her to reccomended a new one and transfer your records there.
Whether you know it or not, or want to admit it or not when our brains are traumatized the brain chemistry, and operation changes. Hyper-vigilance, anger, nightmares, etc. are par for the course.
Do not feel ashamed or think that you are the only one who feels like this. It is a normal...
Remember that most PTSD trauma doesn't come from direct combat or seeing what happened to your friend, and you don't have to fill all of the blocks to have PTSD. The fact that you are having problems like this says that you have PTSD.
If i were you, i would request an outside therapist...
I would not bring it up directly.
PTSD in the military is a sign of weakness, which to me is totally ridiculous.
I convinced my uncle to go who is a Vietnam veteran. His pride was getting in the way, and he didn't want to admit that he had a problem. I started talking to him about the...
Hello my name is Walter. I am a psychology student in Oregon. I decided to study psychology because I have PTSD from things that happened in my past, and i am looking for answers.
There is a lot of research on the effects of what happened to you in your childhood. The biggest factor is that...
Remember that there are totally different parts of the brain that operate differently:
The hippocampus (In the center of your brain) takes in everything that you see, hear, touch, taste, and feel. It discriminates whether it is worth keeping or not, then starts the process of deciphering what...