Tag: psychotherapy
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Part 2: How I Feel Without Falling Apart
Here’s something I’ve learned along the way: sometimes what we think we’re feeling isn’t what it seems. Emotions can be like a 9-layer kueh stack on top one another.
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Part 1: Before the Calm — The Messy Side of Healing
Healing first requires you to feel everything. This is a reflection part 1 of 3 from my trauma healing experience in facing intense emotions during my recovery journey.
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3.5 Years in Therapy
Tears flowed down my face. It’s not like I can’t bear to leave my therapist. It’s more like tears of disbelief. 3 years ago, I thought this was going to be like a life sentence for me. I thought I’d lose everything.
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Rewriting the Blame
For a long time, there was tension between us. Vicky carried immense rage and blame, particularly towards me. She believed I had allowed the sexual abuse from the relative to happen. That belief hurt deeply, especially when I had always seen myself as a victim, not a participant. But things came to a head during…
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Choosing my PTSD treatment: CBT, CPT, EMDR, PE
This entry does not serve as any treatment recommendations. This entry focuses on how I arrive at my choice of treatment. You are encouraged to do your own research and make your own choice. The treatment that I’ve chosen may or may not work most effectively for you because as the saying goes, ‘different person,…
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Athena Sat In Our Therapy Session!
Once again, I was silenced with facts. There’s actually a lot of wisdom there, don’t y’all think? What impressed me most was also the way she is able to articulate the facts. She has a very clear thought process.
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Living with PTSD (no more)
Part of my experience as a trauma survivor is dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In this article, I share about my experience and healing progress from having PTSD.
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My Therapist Explains Dissociative Identity Disorder
In this entry, I shared how my therapist explained to me about dissociative disorders in simple layman terms.