Hi there!

I too hope you will find a good therapist.

I have a wonderful therapist who uses guided imagery as therapy and although I am new with her, she has told me of many success stories for people with partial memories who have been helped with the guided imagery. The added benefit of guided imagery is that it allows healing and distancing from the event. In just one guided imagery session she helped me control my most frequent and frightening flashback. It is truly amazing and now that flashback comes far less frequently and has nearly no power to make me frantic.

My therapist is a psychologist who does psychodynamic therapy. When I expressed a fear that she would leave me or not believe me, she was very reassuring. She said 'what is not to believe?' and that it is proven that people just don't make things like this up. It was my sense of distrust that was really the issue. Now I trust her and have told her things I thought I'd never tell anyone. She also told me that keeping secrets is so unfair to victims because it is the abuser who gains from it, who has something to lose if the secret it no longer kept--it is really the abuser's secret.

I hope this helps and you will find a good therapist who you can share with so you can feel better and realize that you are and always were good and innocent.



ECHOES