Can You Stop Dissociating?

[samson]

Has anyone been successful at stopping this process? Apparently I have been doing this since I was a child when my mother would spank me and tell me not to cry. What's a 4-year-old supposed to do?

I'm in therapy for multiple traumas and sometimes I dissociate during emdr. My therapist makes us stop when that happens and I feel like I'm holding back my own progress. Any suggestions?

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I try to ground myself. Pick out colors and things. I do not like when it happens. It used to happen alot. Now I make myself feel safe and it goes away. It hardly happens to me anymore. Wishing you the best with this.

 

[Shellbell]

I dissociate and have also being doing it since trauma as a child. At the moment I cannot stop it and my husband says it happening more frequently. Being a control freak, this is something I do not like at all!

I know I will learn how to be aware I am doing this and use grounding techniques.

Gizmo, it's good to hear that it can be managed so that it happenes rarely. Thank you for sharing that.