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Feel physically ill at the thought of going back to therapy.

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I think for your letter you should include it but maybe be more straightforward: I was (angry, appalled, saddened) at your (indifference, selfishness, obnoxiousness) and lack of (empathy, emotion, feeling) for this woman who lost her baby at the same time you had your C-section.

It sounds like there are innate problems with her character, not just a mood or communication issue. You are the patient you get to say what you want.
 
@Cypress The thing was I was expressing my need for help with stuck grief due to the loss of my newborn 16 years ago. Ok, so maybe she was right in the fact that the lack of support shown to me was that it made people uncomfortable, maybe I have been wrongly bitter about it all these years but when she made it all about her, and it took two weeks for it to really sink in, 'cause I thought she was just trying to shock me out of dissociation.
 
When an intimate relation dissolves, it really shows us where we are our recovery and what we need to learn to rocover moving along. Some people kill for passion. If I cannt have you no one else will. Some practise the great sweet but poisonous revenge. Some do the latter toward the self etc. On the other end of health, most of us we get angry, hurt, sad and mourn the loss. In your own private mind, you can determine where you are at the spectrum of recovery, acknowledge, maybe even write it out but ultimately even a bad therapist shows us our weaknesses. Helplessness and dependencies not to mention lack of hope. She was not good at her job with you but u can also focus your feelings toward her and truly try to see she is not as powerful as you think. The only and most powerful person is the one who hurt you when you were vulnerable, in love unconditionally and this therapist, you will not remember her... But the feelings she evokes are yours to surrender and accept. Write the letter to the parts that are hurt and angry. That will be change of frame. You are somebody. She was and still is an image in your mind. You are more important so write it for you!
 
I get so tired of this "feel" crap. Do it and progress or don't and resign yourself to your self imposed fate. Do or die peeps. Shit gets pretty real pretty fast when it's DO or DIE. Before hand... feelings mitigate or thwart so much of a healing process it makes me "FEEL" like I'm gonna puke a 110 pound hairball. Understand? It ain't anywhere near 110 pounds, nor a hairball. Ludicrous Fade, wish you'd get unstuck.
 
Well, PTSD is all about "feeling." My ex-therapist told me in one of my last sessions, "There's nothing to be afraid of." And of course for me that's 100% true. No one is going to do the thing to me that caused my PTSD ever again. But if neither my brain nor my body is on board with that, I'm going to feel afraid regardless.
 
I am truly sorry for the loss of your child 16 years ago. I can't imagine feeling that pain and then to have your friends and family keep a distance, not say a word, not check on you, not come sit with you. I can understand your bitterness there. I didn't lose a child in this way so I can only imagine how it must feel. I hope over the years you have found someone that can and does understand, but just because it was 16 years ago doesn't mean it isn't still raw and painful for you. What your therapist said was from an ignorant "expert." I don't know if it's best to put that in your termination letter. I think it depends on what your desires for the letter is. Is it to show her how she hurt you? if so, there may be a more constructive way to address the hurts you felt from your therapist.
 
I just had to come back here one more time because, because I'm having a reaction to your therapist's response to your need to process grief from the death of your child. Why anyone would say to you at such a time as trying to express your grief to somehow justify the lack of support you had. I'm just so put off by your therapist MAKING EXCUSES FOR the people close to you. How can she over look you and try to make you "see, they really didn't want to hurt you" You know that already for f*ck's sake! What about you! You and what you are feeling! You know I heard a very young pastor say this just last week and it has stuck with me: "A Defense is an attack" I agree with this! Your therapist was "defending" those close to you! It does feel like an attack again. Sorry, just had to come back to say all this. OUCH. I feel for you!
 
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