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@Chava! You're a mind reader. I just finished the book today (two day reading binge). I thought the exact same thing at the early description: Connection Survival Style, that's me. It's interesting you reflect on touch and sound; those are my top two most sensitive stimuli too. I also...

Heartist I'm so glad you found your car and that you were able to get home safely. I can relate to what you're describing. I had one particular weekend after emdr that was similar except when I tried to leave a social situation and drive home, I couldn't find my car. I'd been dissociating so...

My most recent therapist does not; she's told me she thinks it's weird. I've been to quite a few who do, some who will let you see them and some who won't. I think notes during session is old school. Now that I've been going to someone who doesn't it's distracting when they do. It makes me feel...

Has anyone else ever blocked/dissociated a body part? I receive body work weekly (although currently my practitioner is out of town), and in my last appointment, I lost my right shoulder. She was working on my low back and I told her my shoulder was hurting, and then it literally just...

Cool Cat this is a great thread. It's something I've been thinking abt the past couple of weeks. I have some early childhood attachment stuff. I've been working hard on it the past few weeks w my meditation teacher and my therapist, and sometimes I can feel it all in my body for a moment but I...

Radise, I get where you're coming from. I'm in my late 20s and I haven't defined all that much either; hopefully you'll find some more folks who are supportive of that (Idt it's all that uncommon to remain in flux). I identify as non-binary gendered too. I have since I was very little. There's...

Dana, Locating where this feeling is around you is something too. Does it seem to press at any particular angle? When it's around you is it like smoke or wind or mist? Does it have a shape to it? These are all questions that can slow the scared feeling and bring some mindfulness so you can be...

Mammo, I totally identify w this thread. When I started emdr, my therapist would often ask me where I felt an emotion in my body. I couldn't begin to answer, everywhere/nowhere/I didn't feel anything. Most of us aren't taught how to feel emotions the way your therapist is asking. Where would...

Y'all I did it! I finally was able to not just walk around it but actually write to my therapist that I worry abt the possibility I experienced csa. Granted it was an email and I probably can't speak abt it. I'm also seriously considering canceling this week and maybe I will. But this is an...

I got off early from work that day so I could be early for the appointment and did the coffee shop thing you suggested @FridayJones. I guess it was okay. I've been so anxious this week so I was just overwhelmed most of the time but I don't think it's the office. Although, I did have this...

She also said she didn't call the day before because she was sick and vomiting for most of the evening.

She told me to call the next day at a certain time, I did and she didn't return my call. She text me this morning to apologize and explain that because I hadn't left a voicemail and she hadn't checked missed calls until this morning that she didn't know. Honestly I think she wants to support me...

Thanks y'all for your replies. Btw I am not new. I have been trying to ground and that's helpful. @shimmerz, your thoughts are mine exactly which is why I tried to send a neutrally worded email abt feeling forgotten. This whole situation esp the lawsuit just triggers all of my attachment stuff...

Also, I'm still having the "Is this a game?" "Is this a punishment?" "Did I do something wrong?" "Is she dead?" "Maybe her husband/baby died." "Is this to see how I will react?" "Is this what's going to happen when the lawsuit gets worse too?" "Maybe it relates to her lack of sleep recently."...

I don't know if this will end up in a different section, but I need to try to get a few things out and I'm failing with writing. I feel totally overwhelmed, exhausted, disorganized, and all of the attachment anxiety/issues. I reached out to my therapist. She has an open call/email between...

I've started taking Buddhism classes. In one lecture, the teacher explained that letting go or truly forgiving is a Buddha like skill. That's high level. But she said you don't have to be able to do that (which I'm glad for because in many situations there's just no way). To find more peace, you...

Is there any chance this could be a medical symptom? From meds or caffeine? About a year ago, I tore my bicep climbing. It hurt in one spot and then I had constant twitching (3 weeks ish) and ongoing tension for multiple months. Could it have started as a psychological/physiological release...

My psych will be in a new office starting this week. I've been seeing her for a little over a year; we have a session in the new space on Thursday. So much anxiety for so many reasons, which bothers me because I think for most people this wouldn't be a big deal. I'm considering emailing her...

Bad One: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

That's it... because it's not a long term strategy, that's all. But if it's working for the short term, do it! :) Enjoy your vacation.

I would've freaked out too, Watundah. I get energy/body work, and I've been going for over 6 months to the same woman. It's intense (in part because it's surprisingly intimate and I don't negotiate that level of contact well). A couple of weeks ago she told me it's time I start talking about...

Ya'll this is mind-opening for me. I definitely have disturbances around my period. I think a part of that is identifying as gender queer. (Although for a while this was about my body bloating and looking more feminine around my period. Now I'm thinner, and that's not the case). It could be...

Wow. I totally identify with your post. I'm a queer + domestic abuse survivor too. It was 5 years in January. I did exposure therapy with my previous therapist, for two sessions, I quit soon after. It got worse, like way way worse. Crying spells that wouldn't stop; I had a cast on my hand...

No, but that's an excellent point. I have no history of fainting but I do have a history of low blood pressure and I know that's commonly associated with fainting. Thanks.

Does anyone else experience some loss of hearing when they're dissociating/emotionally distressed? I've had two different types: one is a whirring, almost like a fan blowing or white noise that makes the other person sound slightly muted. The other is that my ears will ring and then blank out...