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Dangers of short-term therapy for CPTSD Many charities as well as the UK’s NHS seem to have a model whereby a limited number of therapeutic hours (usually no more than 20) are provided for clients to address post-traumatic issues including ...

Questioning the idea that short-term counselling for people trying to recover from/live with child abuse helps rather than harms.

Charities raise money for what ends?

How many of us are left feeling worse than ever + like we're the one with the problem?
#CPTSD #CSA

and that's adults. how on earth can a child have any kind of fucking narrative (nevertheless attempted during #narrativeexposuretherapy last year) #csa

Thank you. Glad you’ve good experiences too. Recommendations welcome if you have any.

coughed up another Substack post - 'when therapy hurts'
#cptsd #csa #csasurvivorsky #trauma #traumatherapy #boundaries #TheFlyingChildStory #bacp

following surprise bonus Monday morning flashback :-(

Have you seen this thread🧵 of 300 curated survivor-focused books? 📚💙

Shares welcome.

#booksky #CSA

These resources all look amazing - and the iatrogenic harm concept - thank you so much. Am tangled in so much re-traumatisation that I've just touched on here.

I've done a list! Reasons why it can take a long time to "remember" childhood sexual abuse. #csa #cptsd #memory

That it should not be my shame, is one thing.

Thank you

Having finally seen a counsellor last yr, I live in a confusing state between denial & knowing I was abused a lot. The counsellor also helped me see how dissociation contributes to such confusion, as well as family & FMS etc. I'm trying to find ways to communicate what happened, maybe just to myself

Even recently, that child psychiatrist (now retired) said #csa is harmless and enjoyable for some children. It's only when they try to do it to other children that it becomes a problem.

In my 20s, I seemed to be having psychotic episodes and found myself in an early intervention service where I was prescribed anti-psychotics. When trauma/ptsd was mentioned, that psychiatrist parent said, among other things, "what have YOU got to be traumatised about?"

Aged 16, I saw a counsellor for the first time, and left home. The parent stopped that counsellor from seeing me again, and I didn't see another one until my 40s.

In my 20s I seemed to be having psychotic episodes. Found myself in an early intervention for psychosis place, being prescribed anti-psychotics. When trauma/ptsd was mentioned, the parent said "what have YOU got to be traumatised about?" among other things.

add please?

Aged 16 I saw a counsellor for the first time, and left home. The psychiatrist parent stopped that counsellor from seeing me again, so that was the end of counselling for quite some time.

Having a child psychiatrist for a parent when being abused as a child is one place to start. Makes for some good gaslighting.