You sound like you did the right thing confronting the rude person - standing by your values and asking her to account for her behaviour - that takes courage @Appleblossom - super impressed by that Hon 
You deserve for people to be nice to you - so go with the flow and accept all that comes you way.
I am heading off forum now to try to get to sleep early. Lovely catching up with you tonight though Apple 
@CheerBear and @Adge yes that was a quote from Catweazel. Another favourite of mine was the 'telling bone'!
Hoping no-one minds a long post trying to respond to all who tagged me since yesterday.
Hoping the night passed without more nightmares/flashbacks for those of us that have them. I had a vivid dream about some friends up north having a death in their family and having an open casket viewing in their lounge room. Will check that they're ok later today.
@Adge I feel for you with the flashbacks about police and A&E - I've been in that way a few times too. Police can be so traumatising, especially if they handle you roughly. They can cause MH problems to escalate instantly. So of course you're in a state by the time they get you there. Feel for you strongly on this topic. Delayed reactions that you describe (if I understood you right) are a common part of CPTSD. I have it too on top of bipolar 1. So hard when your whole life has been one trauma after another and compounded by the way others have treated you when in crisis. Some things that I thought of as one event my psychologist has broken into 4 or more concurrent traumas. We've spent over a year doing a trauma map in between dealing with more current events. The goal is to do EMDR, which we have now started, on what she calls 'the first, worst, and most recent' events. But other events keep coming up along the way. EMDR is said to be strongly indicated as successful therapy for PTSD so I'm giving it a try. It stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. So far we're not doing the eye movements, but using little pulsing units that I hold in each hand and they pulse alternately while I go deep into the details of an event. The theory is that we get to a point where we remember without reliving and stop having traumatic flashbacks or being triggered so easily into flight/fright/freeze responses. Figure it's worth a good try because CBT, DBT and mindfulness training haven't changed anything much, nor did old-school psychotherapy (Jung, Froyd etc). I read recently that that's because us with CPTSD aren't just 'what if'ing about what might happen (as with chronic anxiety), we are fearing things happening again that have actually already happened. Hope that makes sense.
Just read back and saw that you and Zoe have both already considered EMDR and ruled it out, but I think I'll leave this post here anyway.
s back to you too @Zoe7. School goes back here today and I'm wondering if you've heard anything about a new placement yet. The waiting must be frustrating.
Best wishes to all who see this.
