((((Suzzie)))),

If that is what a therapist told you, that is just one opinion and it is something she is "not sure" about. It "is" a challenge for a therapist however when they try to work with a patient that just disassociates and doesn't talk about a trauma/traumas. However, it is not unusual for someone to experience a trauma and just block it out for "years" not even realizing they are even doing that. For example, a woman can experience childhood abuse and block it off for a long time and then have a child of her own and when her child comes the age she was when she was abused the memories come forward and she can develop PTSD. They even learned that some war veterans came home from war, lived their lives and then at a commemorative reunion seeing pictures and discussions went home afterwards and developed symptoms of PTSD.

A lot depends on the age when trauma happens too, and children can just shut down because they have no way of comprehending or defending themselves. It is a way for us to survive and continue to thrive.

I would not consider it being locked out of the world forever though.

OE