In your therapeutic alliance, what are your core issues, your repertoire of feelings?

in #therapy5 months ago

Two words: attachment wounding.

We could also call it relational trauma, or complex post traumatic stress disorder. We could even call it borderline personality disorder, the high functioning variety. If insurance were covering my therapy it would be called generalized anxiety.

But it all boils down to I was raised by deeply wounded people who did not love me. Furthermore, they used me as a mine from which to extract a product. They abused me to extract the product.

And for most of my life I have had a whole collection of debilitating symptoms and disordered feelings, beliefs, and behaviors as a result.