I perceive depressed a year after assault!?
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knowital said it all.
I second the motion.
Get a new psychotherapist.
If you are now seeing a male, try a female.
It might be easier to unseal up about it to a woman.
Also, insist that your husband go to therapy next to you as well (some sessions alone, some with him) so the therapist can assistance him understand what you are going through.
Again, a good therapist is push button.
Keep looking.
She's out there.
Don't give up.
I can tell you if you feel similar to you can't tell your therapist because you fear disapproval, later you might need a new therapist. Sounds close to you are clinically depressed and suffer from Post traumatic Stress Disorder. Talk to someone you feel believes in you - not someone who doesn't think you are doing a upright enough job of getting better. The right shrink coupled with a considerate psychiatrist who prescribes the RIGHT medication can change your life. Good Luck. Source(s): Been in that, done that. And still there.
Yes, there are many women out there who travel through this. My friend is going thru it currently too. Her assaulter will be sentenced in December.
It's easy for everyone to point and say why didn't you do this? do that? why wouldn't you? They weren't near. They didn't experience your shock. They haven't got a clue what they would've done so it comes down on you.
You have been scar internally and externally and unfortunately, there's a memory factor involved both psychologically, but physically too...that's why there's a reaction.
Take some time...lie on your bed or chaise and speck down some things that have happened to you over the past 2 years, both positive and denial. See if there is a pattern of events taking place.
You may want to do impossible to tell apart thing with each relationship which is high-status to you, husband, son, daughter, mom, dad or others. Explore how you feel about each being...before the incident, after the incident and now after the fallout of the incident. You might remember a specific incident that may be the *key* to how you feel around respectively person or whether or not they make you react*.
You can speak to your doctor and let him/her know that you enjoy really been feeling blue....not suicidal....but blue...If you are suicidal, nothing happen if you admit to thinking about it, but it let's your doctor know how serious it is in proclaim to prescribe something weaker or stronger...if you'll consider this route.
Some people actually get by, by freshly taking st johns wort from the health food store or natural foods.
Exercise also does help pick up our mood. I would disregard you to try some new things each month until you find what you like (ie. spinning class ~cycling~ running, see boxing, boxercise, self defense, tae kwon do, rock climbing, step aerobics or learning to teach it). A lot of people love spinning at the gym. There's also aquacise or hose down aerobics...just getting to the pool's hot tub and steam room and stretching is a good beginning.
See if your community tender life skills course or meeting for Anger Management (doesn't matter if you don't catch angry it helps you understand others in it), Assertiveness, Boundaries, Dealing beside Change, Effective Communication, Conflict Resolution, Grief and Loss (doesn't just represent people deaths, pets, divorce, relationships, friendships, etc.), Self Esteem, Self Worth and others.
See if you own a mental health location, and whether or not they offer the coarse for "Change Ways" "Discovering Your Core Beliefs" and "Violent Communicaiton". These are usually 1 day for 3 hours for 8 weeks and are so beneficial.
They adjectives go hand in paw and overlap each other. They are usually 2.5 hours long and free or minmal charge $5.00 for attendance.
You may want to consider reading the book, "Life Goes On". The isolation from friends and family can be a bigger loss to you then you judge. This will help you put some of your thoughts into perspective and organize your thoughts.
Grief and Loss is huge. I'll try to help you have a handle on this as it goes hand in foot with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. When you look at your list from before you will see some things that are missing temporarily and perchance permamently....these are the things you need to grieve....what you don't have today, but would've had if this assault hadn't happen.
The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can also help you relate to some situations that immediately get a hostile response....mine, is every time my daughter wants to be held and it's safe, she'll turn her head and breathe on my décolletage AND I have to do everything not to throw her off of me and still feel my love.
I hope this help to get you started. Even if you were to pick up a workbook and sit for 1.5 hours each daytime and reflect and work through, would be terrific, but maybe start with 20 minutes and work yourself up to a longer time once you are doing it.
I've tabled some books: If you could only get one it would be Life goes on, PTSD workbook, sensation buried alive never die, etc. The libraries usually carry these too! Source(s): http://search.barnesandnoble.com
/PTSD-Workbook/Mary-Beth-Williams
/e/9781572242821
http://www.lifeskills-plus.com/
edu/parents.html
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/
Life-Goes-Losing-Letting-Go-Gail-Boula…
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http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/
Feelings-Buried-Alive-Never-Die-Karol-…
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