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@Friday Thanks for the reply, that's pretty reassuring honestly :) @Missycat Thank you so much for the advice! I will bear that in mind. I've been looking into some grounding techniques and they definitely sound useful @Justmehere Thank you for the advice, I will definitely do that! it's...

@Wendell_R I'm glad to hear you've made progress :) Working on symptoms in the present rather than going through past things definitely feels a lot less terrifying. @Changing4Best Thanks for your reply will definitely look into that :)

@Invisible Fire thanks for your response, that's very reassuring. If you don't mind me asking, how did you set boundaries with your therapist? and did you ever find that your boundaries inhibited your therapy?

That's a really helpful way to look at it, thank you. It is interesting how disconnection can be impacted by core beliefs/distortions. I think even though I get the "this person literally doesn't exist" stuff less at the moment, I still definitely have a "this person just lives in a completely...

Hi guys, Hope everyone is well. My clinic wants me to start trauma focused CBT. I've done CBT before and found it reasonably helpful but it's mainly been depression symptom focused and hasn't been very in depth into the past. I really want to give it my all but I'm really scared about the...

Definitely dealt with this. I think it's a product of feeling disconnected from other people, as if your reality is so different from there's you are in almost entirely different worlds. Also the intensity of the feeling very much depends for me on how much I am ~flash backing versus present...