Thanks scarlet!

Brkndrgn: I mention all this bellow at one point or another in the support group thread too, but Im going to summurize some of it here too:

EDMR therapy was one that I found to be of personal use to me. There are a number of other viable professional treatment options. Just being able to discuss things with a kink friendly therapists who is not a famiely meber or part of the local community scene etc helped emensely.

As well as things one can try on their own to get back into the swing of thing so too speak. I found re-esposutre therapy in graduale increments to also be useful (my owner helped a lot with it) as did this site in making internal mental preperations, like talking about a paticular sex act I knew cuased triggers for me in and of itself was good. Also...re-association excersies...repetition of things I chose to try and work on with positive rewards (even if I failed in said task or order) to help me re-associate the act with a good outcome. My owner allowed me to make determinations as to what we would work on together...its really hard on the dom helping one too since they have to take a totally different approach with the submissive than traditional D/s arrangments. Some things we just couldnt get back into until I felt ready to try and some things we had to put back on the sheklf so to speak when I wasnt able to control my reactions to a given trigger.

Learning to identify ones triggers in and of itself is a gigantic advantage. Identify, understand, create a coping mechinism, test it, repeat until its an automatic sub-consious excersise...succeed! Meditation techniques helped a lot with learning how to control my responces to a lot of triggers.

I am allways available to help in whatever way I can, but this medium is limiting to a certian degree and no substitute for professional assistance...which is why Im big on one seeking help in that area as well.

You are not broken sis, and your not alone and you can be strong again too I know it!