Becky, thanks for asking this because it's something I wonder about too. I've tried everything and I can't get it off me or make it go away. I even feel like trying to sandpaper it off me. It's like something dirty, creepy, crawly is all over you, but worse. I'm a lot less afraid of bugs than I am this stuff. (Bugs don't scare me, but cockroaches may rank pretty close though. Ugh.)

I was also intrigued because around two and a half years ago I went to do something mundane & ordinary then got lambasted by a memory. It involved a female relative I was really close to when I was small & thought very highly of, looked up to her a lot. My T said it was sexual abuse but all this time I still can't believe it and I still cannot do the everyday mundane thing. It's caused me tons of problems not to mention what it's done to my head & world. (See I can't even write the word to what relative it is. That's how much I can't handle it.)

The reason I tell you all this is because after I had that memory and it drove me nuts & went away, I was trying to figure out whether it was bad, or abuse or not. I couldn't find anything about it since it was a female abusing a female. I finally found something about mothers and I thought how horrible, that's even worse than mine. So I really feel for you. I even had a psychiatrist blow it off & say it wasn't that bad since it was a woman & not a man. (Between that & my experiences with therapy, not a big fan of the mental health professional world right now.)

Muffy, have you found talking really helps? I'm curious because it didn't do crap for me in therapy. Plus a lot of it I couldn't talk about anyway, although I did try to draw or write things instead. Either way, didn't get me anywhere unfortunately. Only worse now. Like Becky, I'd really like to know things to get rid of this too. Can't even stand clothes or underwear touching me sometimes because of it. It's horrible.