
Oct 18, 2013, 10:04 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by Freewilled
Hmmm...I guess I ask because I worry that I'm making a big deal out of nothing. I mean, last night during T I really felt like I regressed back to a much younger age and I dissociated more than usual. I feel like it is leading to potential trauma but I don't really think I've been traumatized. I had some neglect I guess - but no physical abuse. I don't know about much else as I don't have a lot of cohesive memories... (Well I guess some emotional abuse /: )
I always worry I'm making things up or making something out of nothing. I really really don't want to give my T the impression that things were bad when maybe they really weren't and I should get over it and move on already. I mean, everyone has bad things happen to them so what makes me so special?
Idk - I'm sorry if I offend anyone or anything. Just for me, I wonder if my stuff is just no big deal and maybe everyone dissociates and regresses sometimes in session....
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No need to label as 'trauma' or minimize or maximize. Everyone's experience is different. There are all kinds of reasons (including what's going on in the relationship with the therapist, how vulnerable you feel, other things going in your life) why someone might regress and/or dissociate. Best to keep an open mind and not judge what did or didn't happen, just explore it and whatever happens in therapy, the important thing is that it's therapeutic/helpful to you --not the material itself, necessarily.
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