sleeeping/full disclosure to t method?

hi guys n girls n all in between

I posted a while back about nightmares and sleeping.

The saga continues and continues to get worse, I believe it is because i will be seeing my T for the first time in a month. Why dose this worry me? Well - its because i want to dissclose 100% but of course am afraid.

I came up with an idea though -

We talked last time about doing the ego state/ dissociative table technique and she also asked, if i felt confortable would i be up for taking my journals in? I said yes because i felt it was agreat idea for me to stop trying to hide things from her that i actually really want to tell!!!

So my IBS, CPTSD and every other thing has been acting up because of it but i want to do it none the less. though i have just realised that writing this and looking at myself as a system, all my problems are because part of me dosent want to??? Actually thinking about it 'the shouting in my ear says - becaus ei am afraid' tell the truth is hard for meny reasons as all if not alot of you will understand.

So i was thinking that i could make a copy of my journal - my journal is a5 any way so i could buy a binder and photocopy the entries thus far and give the binder to my T, with the notion of making copies and passing them onto her from inbetween the sessions? This way she will have a full understanding of the whole picture???!?! That has to help right?!?!?! TO MUCH??? i mean is there such a thing as to much disssclosure?


Sleeping -

any one with any ideas how to sleep with 7/8 nightmares / terrors per sleep?



I hope this post greats you all in good times
B river

aparently being knocked out via banging of the head is a no go... agreed by all but one of me!

RE: sleeping: Get/look into Prazosin! Feel free to ask me any questions about it.

Sharing your journal sounds super scary, but that doesn't mean it's bad! It just means it's scary to make yourself vulnerable/exposed that way. But your T has probably seen it all, and it will only give her insight into how you 'tick', so that she can better help you.

You know what,I have read and thought alot thus drug alot.well I did five years ago.I think from the literature I just read it's use in ptsd has increased and so had it's understanding.

How did you get on with it?

Is anyone else here on it?

I'm going to ask my t tomorrow for sure, thank you sooo much for your help.really, thank you.

I posted in this thread:
http://www.psychforums.com/post1311774.html?hilit=prazosin#p1311774

In short, PTSD nightmares are caused by excessive nor-adrenalin when you're just entering sleep. Prazosin reduces nor-adrenalin. It only lasts for a few hours, so no hangover .

If you want to know more just ask

Hello there, again

Thank you for the thread.it helped answer many questions I hadand saved time!

I'm going to talk to my t tomorrow morning in about 7 hours-I'm having difficulty falling asleep because I'm nervous of the appointment but in all reality there is nothing to worry about.contradictions-that's life!


You said that with an anti psyc medication you are living life?
May I all what that medication changed?
What how long did you our have you been on the praz?

I have often thought of anti psyc medication but am afraid it will stop me healing. Did it affect you in any way line that?

You responding to my thread has rally heeled me be calm tonight.thank you so much.

Here's another thread, about abilify:

http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic119441.html#p1213734

I am not really taking the prazosin anymore, ever since ninchen healed and integrated it hasn't been necessary. On occasion, when the physiological hyper-arousal comes back, or when I'm running on adrenalin and it's bedtime, I'll take 1-2mg.

Without Abilify and Prazosin we would not have been able to heal, because our dissociation was too intrusive, namely the freeze response.