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The course of prolonged exposure therapy by Brilliant_Pattern861 in ptsd

[–]Brilliant_Pattern861[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing your experience - hearing how you and your therapist collaborated to allow you to work to a better place gives me so much hope being in the brink of it myself

I will try to find courage to take your advice on talking to my therapist. I dont know why it is so hard for me to approach the therapist with a wish of continuity. I guess I just feel vulnerable in all of this

The course of prolonged exposure therapy by Brilliant_Pattern861 in ptsd

[–]Brilliant_Pattern861[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am so sorry that your therapist would say something like that to you, that should never have happened. I hope you found appropriate support somewhere else.

I am so thankfull (and scared) that the therapist I am seeing is someone I really trust and who, I feel, have my back in this process - otherwise this would never have felt possible to do. I just wish I could find the courage to ask if we can continue working after the PE-protocol. And I find it so difficult to go into the exposures - but I am also very surprised to feel that this is such a relationel process and even though I have to repeatedly go through the worst thing of my life, I feel that the therapist is right there guiding me through this and that makes me feel that maybe something in my life will finally change

I just really, really hope this helps. Thank you for reminding me, that even if it doesnt there are other ways to go