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Originally Posted by feileacan
To me what your providers do seems very dangerous in that sense that they are basically suggesting that you had a sexual trauma, which totally might not be the case. However, it is known that it's possible to implant memories to peoples minds about events that never happened by suggestion and later it might be impossible to discriminate which memory is actually true and which is a result of therapists suggestion. I am a survivor of emotional abuse but I dont know where all these sexual issues come from.
PTSD is just a label and as a label, it requires a traumatic event. However, many people also accept another label CPTSD which does not exists in diagnostic manuals and which is a fuzzy term but in general means that the trauma is complex and it might be impossible to spot any particular traumatic events, although trauma symptoms are there. For instance, emotional neglect seems produce this kind of trauma.
The things you describe that you are uncomfortable of sexual things are not proof of sexual trauma. Sexuality is one of the most intimate part of the person. If the person was not accepted and was neglected then this can give rise to general low self esteem, problems with sexuality, interpersonal problems.
My personal opinion is that your T would do you much bigger favor if she would stop looking for a sexual trauma that perhaps was never there but work with the material that is there (e.g. emotions, memories) and try to understand their meanings.
The diagnosis itself is irrelevant, this is mostly only for insurance purposes.
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Yes, but it is much more complicated than that. I have had extreme anxiety about sexual things since I was 8. Someone said the word ding dong when I was 8 and I had a panic attack and nearly ended up in an orphanage because my mom couldnt handle the anxiety I was having over anything sexual that was said or seen. I have had bad impulses to touch people innapropriately since 8. I have had this idea that woman who are sexually traumatized are sexy some how since I was 8. My mom had a talk with me and my sister about sexual abuse and I had panic attacks. Much more I could tell you. If that doesn't come from sexual trauma I dont know what does. My therapist does say well so and so may be from sexual trauma. She does try to see if I can remember things through EMDR but she is much more careful not to say who she thinks it was. She had stated she thought it was my mother but she said she was sorry she mentioned it after I said there was no proof of it. She is a trauma based therapist so I am not sure she would be doing her job if she wasn't focusing on that. I am a survivor of emotional abuse but I dont understand where the sexual issues came in.