Depends on why I was dissociating more around that person. if it was because they are trying to play shrink with me then I basically work them back out of my life at least during situations that the person was playing shrink with me around. otherwise I recognize the person triggering me is not their fault. it is my trigger reactions therefore I am the one that needs to be more aware of how I feel and locate the triggers BEFORE I enter a dissociated state of mind. My dissociating has been always happening since I have been a child so I have always been dissociating around people who enter my life no matter when they enter my life and for what reason. just because I now know what is wrong with me doesn't mean I dissociate more around those in my life. It just means I know I dissociatie so now I know that I need to take steps that will lessen my dissociating and this means that no matter who I am with - people I have known for years and years or new acquaintences I am going to be dissociating and I now have a choice of either going with it or locating my triggers and using my grounding techniques and relaxation techniques so that I can now tell the person no matter who they are that I need to slow down or I need a break or even I need to use the bathroom and once in the bathroom use my grounding techniques and so on.

Basically how I deal with this is recognizing that my dissociating around people is nothing new I have always been doing it. But what is new is that I now know how tocheck in with myself on how I am feeling at all times so that I don't have to dissociate away from whatever the person is saying and doing that is making me dissociate. I now have the choice of physically ending the conversation, leaving the room and so on. Its not the other persons fault that they may be telling me about the snake their child wanted to get for chistmas and I have a problem with snakes kind of thing.