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I was really messed up when I started therapy. I have a trauma therapist with 26 years of trauma experience. I have come so far in the last year. I would push in the beginning and retraumatize myself, but he taught me not to do that, to work on skills and self soothing. I did, and now we process trauma unless something else is happening, then we stabilize.
 
I would push in the beginning and retraumatize myself, but he taught me not to do that, to work on skills and self soothing. I did, and now we process trauma unless something else is happening, then we stabilize.

Now THAT is a GOOD therapist. I'm happy you found him early on. It took me over 40 years to find one that would do that for me. Then another 20 before I found another one. Both of them have since retired. I consider myself spoiled.
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. We have a joke - good therapist/evil therapist (my perceptions, same therapist). It is hard to build trust and keep it, but after a while the evil therapist comes less and less. I realized that when I saw him as evil, it was just transference.
Hi Monster
I would like to know whether you could stay connected / attached to your therapist through the 'evil' bits, or at least go back to the same level of trust afterwards?

I'm beginning to wonder whether the fault was really all mine.
 
We had to talk through the evil parts. It usually turned out to be my perceptions. He is very kind. It took a couple of sessions to go back to the level of trust, but that level was higher after that, because I knew I could talk to him about it. Once I even clarified what he was saying before I got mad. I realized what I was doing was a symptom, and that's how he saw it. I was only hurting myself by doing that and not talking to him.

It is not your fault vs therapist fault, it is just a symptom of the PTSD. As you go through therapy and learn to trust, it will happen less and less. The important part is to keep going. Just go. That's how I get through. I just get in my car and go no matter how I feel. It isn't easy. It is the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life. I promised myself I would not quit. I've quit about 10 times, but I always go back within a week. The first part of trauma therapy is to establish trust and learn skills. This part took a year for me and I am still learning. I feel so much better but I still have so far to go.
 
It is not your fault vs therapist fault,
This is probably true, yet I felt that after every curve ball my 'emotional window' closed a bit - until it is open only slightly. One more unexpected thing and it would have closed completely. I'm actually glad that I can't afford therapy at the moment as I can hold onto the idea that I can go back while I don't have to feel anxious about seeing her and wondering what was going to come my way next. Even so, I feel let down.
 
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