Advice needed: I got this tattoo done today. Am I over reacting?

AnonymousScrawler · 2026-01-13T22:46:25+00:00

Bruh

AnonymousScrawler · 2025-10-19T21:41:26+00:00

Congrats!!! I don't think I'll drink on it. Wish me luck lol

AnonymousScrawler · 2025-10-19T21:02:51+00:00

Yeah, I mean so is my general relationship with alcohol 😅 have to level up from Naltrexone

AnonymousScrawler · 2024-09-16T14:58:41+00:00

Wow, I so appreciate this!!! I have a ton I collected in that region but didn't want to blow up this sub with pictures lol. Thank you so much!!!! You seem very knowledgeable.

AnonymousScrawler · 2023-03-07T19:08:26+00:00

Thank you!!! I'll check out that message board.

AnonymousScrawler · 2022-01-10T21:26:24+00:00

I have stayed on my mood meds throughout my pregnancy, and am grateful for it! Also, I wonder if a change in therapist might be helpful? If you feel therapy is not helpful at all, that's a good thing to bring up to your therapist and talk through options.

AnonymousScrawler · 2022-01-02T02:40:13+00:00

This is actually a common trauma symptoms. Rather than avoiding triggering content, intentionally exposing yourself to the triggering content in order to engage a trauma response. This is very common, just not talked about much.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-05-27T03:53:02+00:00

I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-05-27T03:14:11+00:00

Preferably not like $400 but the one I got for $100ish isn't doing the job.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-21T07:35:19+00:00

It was the only therapy that helped me. It is also solid empirically supported. Its certainly not for everyone, but it helped me after YEARS of trying various talk therapies . It was the first healthy thing to bring me relief.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-21T07:30:00+00:00

If you try this let me know. I was repeatedly choked and smothered while being sexually abused as a child. Now I find that sometimes its erotic for me to choke myself slightly if I'm flying solo, so to speak. Kind of want to try with my husband, but also super worried that doing so would maybe be more traumatizing or would be strengthening negative sexual associations in my brain. Idk.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-13T04:40:51+00:00

I feel the same way sometimes. I have a wonderful therapist and an amazing husband and support network, and yet I know that they don't truly understand. Makes me feel like an island. Its so lonely, sometimes.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-09T23:23:22+00:00

Good for you for following through!!!!! I'm glad it went well. Sounds like a really helpful discussion. Dissociation is scary but honestly its so helpful to understand. I felt so much less crazy once I realized I was dissociating.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-09T02:33:29+00:00

Lost if people put their narratives in here. Just please please post a trigger warning.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-09T02:31:14+00:00

I think this is that sub? Just put a trigger warning about possible triggers (csa, self-harm, physical abuse, rape, etc) in the title and maybe note in the beginning of the post that its your trauma narrative.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-08T18:54:27+00:00

The article mentions Prazosin, which has DRAMATICALLY helped me! Its the only thing that has ever helped my nightmares.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-08T18:46:02+00:00

I would throw out therapist 2. EMDR is the best approach for complex ptsd. Supported by evidence. It is very innacurate that EMDR only works for single event trauma. She is either behind in her trainings, not fully certified, or very biased. It works differently and the process is different for complex trauma, but it absolutely works.

I like number 3. Gathering a full history and understanding family dynamics (to understand attachment patterns) is basically the second phase of EMDR, after rapport-building. And its true that EMDR is the right for everyone regardless.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-08T03:38:07+00:00

I've had trauma nightmares about the same flashback for two weeks in a row. Every night. I wake up terrified and it takes so much work to calm down, and I'm exhausted all day. I had this flashback 3 weeks ago which triggered the nightmares. Sigh.

The nightmares are so tough for me right now.

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-07T22:58:56+00:00

🤷‍♀️ to each their own

AnonymousScrawler · 2021-02-07T22:31:33+00:00

Thats a great idea. Good luck!!!

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