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I get upset when my T says something about my symptoms or experiences being common for someone who was abused. Even after all this T and accepting my PTSD diagnosis, I have a hard time calling what happened "abuse."

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">skeksi, I am the same way. My T and I worked on this for quite awhile, particularly regarding the abuse in my marriage, but also from my childhood. (But particularly in my marriage--I'm an adult, why didn't I just leave?) It took me ages to accept this and to be able to say the word "abuse." To me, it felt like if I admitted I was abused, I would be casting myself in the role of a victim, and I do not see myself that way. We had to work a long time on that....

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I also asked her is there anything I could possiblity do that would make her not want to work with me? and she smiled for a while and said, I dont foresee that ever happening we have a good relationship, geez I wanted to jump and party when she said that but I continued to stared ahead emtionless

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">What a great comment from your T. Partay time! But yeah, I totally relate to being overjoyed and holding it all in. It is protection.