YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Do the rest of you (that have complex PTSD) experience dissociative symptoms? To put it as succinctly as I can, it feels like being in a glass prison. I look outward and see dangers and impossibly high walls that I have to climb to achieve a modicum of what appears to come so easily to others. I bur...

I have PTSD with dissociative symptoms, it feels like being in a glass prison. I look outward and see dangers and impossibly high walls that I have to climb to achieve a modicum of what appears to come so easily to others. I burn with a desire for normalcy, for the trappings of a normal life. I woul...

It seems this section doesn't see much action. I don't think I'm near the integration stage. What has it looked like for you? I'm currently still unearthing ego states. So far: 30 - my feminine ego-state, very similar to my mother, a narcissist; 27 - alcoholic/recovered, where most of my shame, bad ...