POST TRAUMATIC STRESS ( MINUS THE "D" FOR DISORDER)

PTS alters relationships causing some or all of the following symptoms:

• Feelings of alienation
• Mistrust and guardedness
• Detachment and isolation
• Loss of pleasure in life
• Loss of capacity to feel joy
• Loss of capacity to have healthy connections to others
• Loss of ability to feel sensuality or sexuality
• Repetitive self-destructive relationships
• Discontent with self comfort and inability to receive nurturing, sometimes even touch
• Problems with boundaries
• Problems communicating wants and needs
• Feelings of abandonment that may not be based on fact

Exercise A

1. I was betrayed by ...

2. As a result, I .....

Exercise B

1. What does it mean to you to be able to trust?
2. In what situations do you trust your own thoughts?
3. In what situations do you trust your own judgments or conclusions about a person
4. About a situation?
5. How do you define the word intuition?
6. When do you feel your intuition speaks to you? When do you notice it?
7. How else do you become aware of your feelings and beliefs?
8. Are you trustworthy?
9. When do you keep your promises? When do you not?
10. Do you develop trusting someone gradually or not at all?
11. What people or groups DO you trust?
12. When you have to depend on a person, you feel.........
13. When do you ask people for help with tasks?
14. When do you ask others for help for emotional needs?

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