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Oct 30, 2013, 07:08 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
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It sounds like, unconsciously, you were protecting yourself by shutting down in this way, from the overwhelming depression and/or anxiety? Dissociation can be a coping mechanism, maybe this is it's role here. I don't think it has a direct link to BP though insofar as it's used to cope, yes, if that makes sense.
It sounds scary -did you feel like you were outside of your body/yourself? I've felt that way -especially when feeling very scared (due to something/someone triggering old fears).
I forget now if you have a therapist, but if so, I've heard that 'grounding techniques' can help -focusing on things in the room that 'bring you back' to the here and now, to yourself...and other things. It's scary, right? But I think the mind has some pretty wily ways of protecting us sometimes; the important thing is that it not distress you too much, and this where your therapist might help. 
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