Does talking really help?

[Miseryguts]

Hi...

I've seen a therapist once in my life, spent an hour with her then time was up and I walked out feeling bruised and battered. Like an open wound she'd forgotten to sew closed before she sent me back in to the world. I never went back.

That was before the really significant trauma.

There's so much more now that I'm not sure that going over it could even help. I feel like there's nobody in the world with enough time to even listen. And I cry so much! I can just be doing shopping and it will cross my mind or an image will pop into my head and I immediately start to cry. I definitely spend more time crying than not. Don't know what to do.

[Amia]

All the replies have already been incredibly helpful.

All I can add is that from my own experiences the first few sessions are all incredibly painful. It can feel like you're just tearing up olds wounds.

The way I like to look at it though, is those old wounds never correctly healed, and in order for them to heal properly, they need to to be reopened, cleaned out, and heal slowly with proper care, the end result, a shimmer of a scar, a warriors mark.

Talking is what saved me, and I promise it will save you. Whether that be a Psychologist, Pyschiatrist, Counsellor, Doctor, Family, Friends or here.

In the beginning you may go once a week, or once a a fortnight, slowly you'll