Hi Katrina, I'm 58, new to the site as well, I am a very recently diagnosed sufferer of CPTSD and have had two EMDR sessions now, .
Thanks for sharing your story, I can relate to some of what you experience. Isolated but able to get by if I have to.
I have read and am reading again, Pete...
Sometimes I can cry and sometimes not. Like you, the tears will well up but stop at the eyeballs! I have cried so much and so often though and I wonder how much more healing needs to be done?!
I do absolutely know though, for me anyway, that after a big cry, I feel better. Not always...
I used to pick my skin, bottom of my feet and near my finger nails when I was quite young. I stopped it, I don’t know how, possibly the pain I inflicted on myself, perhaps because I took up smoking. If it’s not one thing it’s another. I stopped smoking two years ago and now I binge on sugar...