Poll How Long Have You Been In Therapy For Your Ptsd?

[Higgins]

I love solution ideas. When you guys post solution ideas, it's great.

 

[watundah]

Well, I took the slow road. I started in the mid 80s with ACoA counseling and did counseling on and off for many years. No one used the term PTSD. Ever. I started back to therapy about 3 1/2 years ago for relationship issues and luckily, coincidentally, she is a trauma expert. If only...

 

[Hush92]

Well

How long have you been in therapy for your PTSD?

I've been in therapy off and on for over twentyfour year...

I first started therapy back when I was 17 because of my struggles with anxiety. As I began to trust therapy more and more and felt more comfortable with it I opened up more about things I experienced, and really just now am I beginning to work on it, so that's why I said about only for a year, despite having been in therapy regularly for 3 years.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

I'm 15, and I've had a few years of theraphy... All with the same psychiatrist

 

[Heather]

Too long.

 

[Deleted member 8714]

I was first in therapy at age 26 and last in therapy at age 62. Big gaps in between in years for a total of 25 plus years in therapy.