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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge
I think this was the case with me. I was resistant to the very word "trauma", to the idea that my FOO was not normal (from what I know now, I'm amazed I could ever doubt it), and I am a reader anyway; my T used this approach to get me to think concretely, write down my own experiences/feelings to compare to what I was reading, and pow, it hit me.
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Yeah, this is how my T helped me to understand the mutism was real. For years, I'd been told I was just trying to be difficult, and he wanted me to understand that it was a genuine condition, so we got out the DSMV (?) book and looked it up!