hi there, got my hand up. T and i went nowhere for almost a year... and then she asked me to write a timeline, and the whole therapy thing took a huge change in course & has really been working well ever since.

I drew a long line, from earliest memory to present day (for me it was a looong line), and marked off five year intervals.

Then I wrote a widely spaced list -
year ____, age 3
year ____, age 4
year ____, age 5
etc, to present year.

I stuck in the easy things first, Sept 11, 2001; dates of births / deaths / wedding / graduations / new jobs / moves etc
then I went back year by year. Age 4 - my Dad left us. Age 9 - oh yeah, I nearly drowned at camp. Age 36 - I finally came back to the Church - whatever. As I went on, it became easier to remember - houses we'd lived in, pets we'd had, all kinds of stuff was still in there that I had forgotten. I wrote good things and bad things. (Moving BTW is considered a bad thing because it cuts your social ties & safe routines).

Then I went back to the timeline and started making little hatch marks on it - marks above for good things, marks below for bad or stressful things. When I got done marking I took a look at it and POW! I was amazed to see the patterns.

T said, you are finally starting to make sense of your life. I will always be grateful to her for suggesting this exercise. Took me about 2 wks but it was really worth it IMO. good luck!!!!