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"Therapy is a Petri dish for longing. It just grows and grows. " --UnicornSightings Wow, that is an incredible line right there. So very deeply amazingly true too. So, I want to share my experience with you with this disclaimer: what happens in my therapy is not for everyone; it just happens...

I started deep trauma work a year ago in June. Prior to that I had seen the same therapist for 8 years and it took me that long to build the trust for me to come to a place where I could open up about trauma that had happened in my childhood with her. This is not because she is an ineffective...

You've just changed my world with this post littleoc. Wow. Never before have I considered having c-PTSD as a badge of honor, a label that says we overcame, we did not become our abusers, we stopped the cycle. Now never again will I think of it any diffently. Thank you for sharing this and...

Sooooo inspiring to hear this. Wow. As in the old Timex watch commercials, you took a lickin and kept on tickin! Keep going. And be proud of every breath you take, Friend! Cuz you kept breathing when it was particularly painful to do so. You are amazing.

I have been in therapy on and off for decades. As for c-ptsd stuff and deep trauma therapy, less than a year. As for a timeframe, as my therapist and my Mental Health Mentor (who has undergone trauma tx herself) say, it takes as long as it takes. Different for everyone but you can't rush it...

Jason Gray. Remind Me Who I Am Next up: anything raucous by Pink! Lol.

Listening with My Heart: A story of kindness and self-compassion. By Gabi Garcia It's a kid's book but sometimes, when we are dealing with trauma that happened from a young age, it helps to speak the language of our inner Littles to ease the grief and learn about self love and soothing.

Grounding rock for sure! My Mental Health Mentor collects rocks and turned me on to this when she gave me some special ones she'd found while combing the beaches. I have them in my purse, car, shopping bag, you name it. I call them my pacifier ocean rocks and just feeling their texture and...

I have two therapists that love me unconditionally; they've told me this over and over again as I've been moving through deep trauma therapy. I refer to them both as my Love Team. We are dealing with lots of "Littles" or rather, younger parts of me who got frozen in time with the trauma that...

Thank you so much Fenway Friend! And I heartfelt thanks to all who have replied. I can't adequately express how much your words mean to me. Y'all really help a lot. Thanks!!!

She Cat, thank you so much. I've read your words a few times over and really appreciate them. Hey, another question, how do y'all not get freaked out about things about T that seem like warning signs they are tiring of you (even though they aren't, but these are perceived...

Hey, wondering, was there ever a part of your therapy/process when you shut your care team out, or at least wanted to? Withdraw because the pain was too much; pretend not to care about anything? Shut the door on reaching out while a hard ass numbing took over? I am "convinced" my care/treatment...

Hey there! Familiar with multiple diagnoses here. In fact mine resemble an eye chart like yours, lol. Seem to get a new one each year. List so far: Depression (MDD) Anxiety (GAD) OCD ADD Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder (ASAD) Dissociative Disorder (DD NOS) PTSD Eating Disorder (ED) Self...

Prazosin is great for PTSD-induced nightmares. Highly recommend.

Hey, one other thought on this: public health clinics, I have found, tend to have more of a handle on this kind of thing than even most private practice docs. I think it's because they deal with more folks who have potentially been exposed to traumatic events in their lives and they are trained...

Okay, so I totally get this. It freaks me out too, especially when I'm in symptom or having trouble with dissociating or am triggered, which occurs quite often in this type of exam, unfortunately. As a child, after I was abused my parents tricked me into going to the pediatrician. They told me...

This is a beautiful post and I soooo get it. It really resonates with me and you wrote of your deep desire for healing and connection and nurturing so succinctly and wonderfully, I applaud you for putting this out there! I feel very similarly. For so long I wanted almost an ability to merge...

Tornadic Thoughts (Love the Name btw!), Some of the very best and therapeutic care my family and I have received are from social services public clinics that take medicaid (medi-Cal where I am) and Medicare or amazing sliding scale options. A fancy office and hundreds of bucks an hour does...

On and off in therapy for 3 decades now. Solid 2x/week for past 8 years with same T. Just started doing trauma work recently...feels like starting all over in some ways, though it did take 8 years of building the trust to get to this point. Recently increased time from. 1 hour to 1.5 hour...

I saw this movie on my birthday and was, along with everyone else sobbing around me (like the entire audience), wrecked by it. I was raised fundamentalist Christian (the we-gotta-yank-em-out-of-hell by scaring the living crap out of them type of upbringing). I was terrified every day I was going...

Hello to my new PTSD Friends! Just found this site recently and this is my first post. This thread is really relevant to my current experience in therapy and I wanted to share that with y'all. A little background to set the scene: I have been seeing my current therapist for 8 years. While we...