Does Anyone " Get It "? I Don't Know Who I Can Trust.

[HomeAlone]

Hi Lani,

I felt like that too, and actually cried the first time I had a reply here- just relief! There are days I think most people here have given up trying to think straight, also, maybe tomorrow! :) One of the things which is nicest about being here is that you're not 'the only one'. you know?

Do what you can, where you can. We're here.

Take care,

Anni

I think this forum is even more important than therapists, since it's impossibe to understand it otherwise.
Otherwise, everyone understands the symptoms, since everyone's felt, axious, depressed and hopeless etc. to some degree; but only a small fraction of people have been really traumatized to the point that they can't function, so they think we just don't want to.

 

[anni]

It's something you can't explain to anybody, and stop trying after awhile. I know you're supposed to keep trying but it gets old plus exhausting.

Home is kind of right about that, with the therapists, although all kinds of alarm bells will go off there I know. It's just that even with the T, there's The Conversation and even though of course they believe you, it's still usually someone who doesn't have the same furniture in their head. Here. that conversation has been held and is kind of over before you're logged in for the first time, that's all. It is important.

 

[Isabelle]

I take a village to recover. For someone like me who's natural instinct is to distrust and run I just had to keep showing up week after week and do the next right thing with my EMDR therapist. I found it really hard at first...the benifits are amazing for a person like me. I wanted to get better so I had to listen to the people who knew better than I. I processed the T's and t's and I can tell my story of trauma. For me I still have trouble with emotional trauma because I don't have a memory attached. I keep showing. I keep seaching for my voice.