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Luce · Sep 05, 2009, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Elysium3006

Luce...you are so right on about this. I do not know too much about the ANP and the EP, but I'm glad you said something.

T and I talked about this after we did some grounding and yes, her comment triggered Willow as well as a couple other insiders.

Earlier this week we had our final session with our old T....the dreaded termination. Some of our younger parts feel like someone died. When new T said how well we were doing and how far we had come from 7 months ago...James got scared that if we started getting better that new T would leave too.

The dissociative response makes perfect sense when I think back on it...but when you're in the moment and caught up in the past, it's so hard to pin down. We did okay after a bit of grounding, but for a while it was like her voice was amplified yet coming from someplace far away...if that makes any sense?

Thanks for responding...

Eriks.....Thank you for the hug!! We appreciate it!!

Elysium, given the context you describe your reaction makes perfect sense.
I know what you mean about it being easier to figure out looking back on it. The good thing is, the more you reflect on experiences like this and are able to figure out what happened after the fact, the easier it will become to address them as they happen. Those reactions can be very scary... but once you come to understand what causes them they become less frightening. You can get to the point where, at the first sign of that dissociation, you are able to say - hang on a moment, something has been triggered and we need to figure it out before we move on.

So you know... don't knock 'after the fact' learning.

It's part of the process, and it will get you where you want to be eventually!