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I had multiple mental illnesses, one of my diagnoses is cptsd. Right now I’ve been doing more behavioural therapy and my current psych focuses more on exposure therapy. I feel like I haven’t been able to get far, it’s not that it hasn’t helped, but I feel
I don't know how to stop it controlling me. I've read the books, I've listened to the podcasts. All they've done is make me feel deficient and not good enough. My psych acknowledges that it is a trauma trigger and that we need to resolve the roo
Hi y'all. i have a question. How are we supposed to recover or heal when you actually do not have any friends? I have extreme anxiety and distrust in making any new friends. The friends I supposedly have always say " just call if you need to tal
Seeking help, thoughts, info from life experiences etc currently doing schema therapy for CPTSD and feeling have hit a wall. been reading little bits about ACT therapy and wondering if could be worth talking with psychologist about next session
My older sister introduced me to the Finch app 537 days ago (It's like a personalised wellbeing tamagotchi that you can connect with friends using - incase you haven't heard of it) and it's been a really positive experience for me to remember the ha
I regularly get into these CPTSD spirals when i want to be yelled at and ripped apart and told about how much of a terrible and worthless person I am I've tried asking my therapist to yell at me and she thought I was joking and told me sternly
Has anyone found that childhood trauma impacted their ability to learn new social skills? What happened to you socially and what has helped you cope?
The last 3 years have been very traumatic for me, and as soon as I think this is the worst it can be something else traumatic happens which just makes it harder for me to be resilient from traumatic experience after traumatic experience and I’m struggling
TW: Domestic Violence As a significant milestone approaches for my brother, I reflect on "our mother". It is simply unfathomable to me, unreconcilable, boggling, mind breaking....I cannot in any way reason, reconcile, nor "understand" that my mothe
Ive been wanting to share more about this disorder for a little while and was trying to think of a more possibly engaging way to do it. At first I thought about the reddit thread 'AskMeAnything' but then I backtracked because whoa mamma that website
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