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Old Oct 20, 2014, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster View Post
Agreed. I'm a very rational person and therapists always try to approach me from an emotional standpoint. It's stupid. Not everyone is the same, and I don't like the cookie-cutter approach that so many professionals take. They hear about my childhood and the automatic assumption without talking to me about it at all is, "Atypical must have PTSD!"
Are you still in contact with those who abused you? One of the few helpful things I got out of therapy, is the decision to get away from the people who were causing me harm.