Counselor or Psychiatrist?

((Trace)), it's important that you just be able to talk about anything that challenged "you" instead of thinking it is wrong to do so or that you are being disrespectful somehow. You simply need to review your own files because in those files are experiences that can attach to "hurts" that you need to finally attach a better understanding to them instead.

We all go through our lives learning from our experiences, and when we are children we are all at the most vulnerable because none of us have life experiences to help us understand when people in our environment confuse or frighten us in some way. So your healing has nothing to do with "judging" your parents in anyway, but to finally review anything that you retained that you struggled with that never got validated and resolved correctly.

I read this article this morning and while it doesn't talk about PTSD, it does talk about how the brain works. They use an example of seeing an actor, then seeing him again in front of the Statue of Liberty, the brain connects the two together and files them and when the brain recalls that actor, the brain will also recall the statue of Liberty. That is how our brains store memories. So, when trauma happens, we attach any reminders to the trauma, so we need to go back and find these traumas and talk them through but add in "slowly" something that helps "lower" the way that trauma got filed and whatever it was attached to that brings on reminders. This process is "not" about making judgements at all, but instead going through your "own" library and "slowly" working through whatever is there that needs you to work on attaching some more sense/calm/resolve to anything that has been filed that disturbs you. It is going to be unique to each person so that is why you are working on your own personal history right now. It's not about anyone judging you, or even you judging others, but instead just working on whatever "is" there that is unresolved in some way.

Peeking into the brain's filing system - BBC News