I am (barely) recovering, thanks to the chemical assistance of Diazepam, from the worst anxiety attack I’ve suffered in months.  One minute I was sitting here minding my own business, the next I could barely breathe. What triggered it?  It’s stupid, really.  All that happened was that A decided he would clear out two big [...]

So, here I am playing catch-up with the C sessions here, thanks to my recent laziness and endless forays into procrastination.  Let me add an advisory preamble to this post: I’m afflicted right now with a terrible dose of Blog-and-life-inertia-itis, so don’t expect this to be remotely scintillating, like several of you curiously found Sunday’s [...]

Over the weekend and today I’ve been cracking up completely (yeah, I know, <insert standard comment about it ‘being a bit late for that’ here>), and losing pieces of what fragile sanity I have left little by little.  I posted the other day about how ‘They’ were plaguing me with their bile mantras emphasising my [...]

*** TRIGGER WARNING *** This goes into much more specific and disturbing detail than my last post of this nature.  Please, please take care in reading this. If you’re in any doubt about how much you may or may not be triggered, click here instead.  P. xxx Earlier, bourach at Conversations with my Head wrote [...]

Given the kind of material I’ve been writing about recently, I thought I’d make note of these stories that I found on the website Child Abuse Effects.  None of the three are exactly revelatory, but they do highlight issues I’ve had in my own experiences, and they acutely remind one that one is not alone [...]

I saw my consultant psychiatrist, NewVCB, for the second time this morning, an appointment that I’d been dreading for days.  Even though my first encounter with her back in January had gone without any significant hitch, and even though I had established on that occasion that she was not as formidably intimidating as OldVCB, I [...]

Recent conversations with C regarding my experiences of child sex abuse have been highly suggestive that there’s a lot more to what happened than that which is recalled in my forefront, conscious memory. In recent sessions, and outside them at times too, I keep getting flashbacks of incidents of which I’d not previously been aware, [...]