Thanks so much for your suggestions everyone!

I like the idea of writing/listing things down and since my therapist is open to e-mail that would probably work well too. I also have the problem of not looking him in the eye and kind of just shrinking down into this blanket he has in the office when things get hard for me to talk about.

I did talk about things with my therapist last night. I'm not sure how I feel about it right now. The first thing is that he wouldn't offer any suggestions as to what is wrong with me. He told me a lot about PTSD after asking why I came up with that (apparently he's done some big paper on it) and asked if his description sounded like me. But we mostly talked about my symptoms and how he can help me with those.

For now, I think this is a good thing. It is less important for me to have a label for what's wrong than it is to GET BETTER. I think that is what he wants me to focus on too. He also seems to be of the position that diagnosing someone with something is a pretty serious thing not to be taken lightly. We shall see as time goes on.

He gave me some homework; to watch a movie called "Ordinary People" which is about a guy who suffers from PTSD after an accident. The movie chronicles his family being torn apart by it and then goes through all of the guy's therapy sessions. My therapist emphasized that part because he wants me to see what kind of therapy I might be looking at if I want to kick this thing and he wants me to have an idea of how intense or emotionally painful it might be.

So there it is... a start.