You say a lot I resonate with. Talk therapy never helped with my CSA. Bright eyed ignorant people is a good way to put it. who seemed very intent on impressing me with their therapeutic credentials but never lived thru my sh– – or if they did can’t discuss it. IMO most of them were just using me to figure out their own crap. I did have one good therapist back in the day who really tried to listen but if she’s not a survivor, I feel it can only go so far. Peer support can be useful I feel.

I am going my own way. I do take an anxiety med at present b.c. I have to as my body has spasms due to what happened. I feel very unsafe in public sometimes. They wanted me to try zoloft and it gave me horrible side effects. If others need meds, more power to them, it can truly help people, but for me I can only tolerate the anxiety meds from time to time.

I am walking and doing tai-chi when I can in the mornings. Labeling thinking “thinking”. I also need to find my own way thru this with my conception of God, as I do believe in God, to assist me. I am detoxing from a lot.

Radically accepting my emotions is great stuff and helpful, mine tend to jerk me around.

I have been listening to overthinking videos and about detachment recently. It is helping me. To say to myself, “this is just thinking”.

To stop overexplaining myself. Is huge.

Hi Roberta,

A knitting group sounds nice. I would like some sort of meal shared with people,
I think – something simple. I was involved in a Buddhist meditation group years ago,
but the founder died.