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sorry, error when commenting. :) Welcome! I’m new here as well. I wanted to say I know how scary street harassment can feel. I lived a few years of my life suffering the same, to the point that I began wearing baggy clothes to hide my body, stopped doing my makeup and hair, even deliberately...

Thank you for the welcome! I read the cup theory, and it makes a lot of my own behavior for the past, I don’t know, 20 years, make a lot of sense 😅 I’ve never heard it explained like this. It puts something I could never put into words into something digestible even for non-sufferers. Thanks...

Thank you. I have heard of the EMDR hangover, but I guess I assumed (you know what they say about assuming haha) that the hangover would be the day of or day after. Typically, I feel great after a session and the following day. This is usually 3-4 days after, like a slow fall a bit. I like...

Thank you so so much. Trauma therapy itself is new to me, though I’ve done CBT, DBT, you name it otherwise. You’re spot on about sleep. The need for rest does feel positive for me as well, just so new to my body that’s used to “we need to stay moving” mode. Sleep as well.. I’ve found that after...

This is a very good way to put it. It’s sort of like that part of me is… unbecoming, or evolving, and new neurons are waiting to become. I was trying to describe how I was feeling to my fiancé a few days prior to making this post, and I phrased it as “I feel like I want to hibernate.” But the...

Hi everyone, I’m a 31 year old woman from the US, and I was misdiagnosed for about 15 years before I was properly diagnosed with C-PTSD in 2018. What a whirlwind it’s been since then. I am currently undergoing EMDR therapy for my trauma, mostly related to childhood trauma and alcoholism in...

Hi everyone, I’ve been in EMDR therapy for about 2 months, and I have a long history of C-PTSD. I like my therapist a lot, and we’ve reprocessed some minor, and some major, trauma. For the first time in my life, I feel like I’m seeing a positive change in myself from therapy. I’m less...