Just an update as spoke to T about this today.
Thank you to all that replied, not ignoring the relevance of your contributions... just that the below was the one that symbolised what was brought up tonight.
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Originally Posted by Leah123
It's hard to predict what will come up when we discuss the past, so... I don't think your therapist or you could have predicted the exercise might backfire and it sounds like you had a number of other factors actually contribute to your crisis. It's just really really important to focus on stabilizing right now so you don't have such a strong reaction going forward. We who've dealt with trauma have inner minefields sometimes, and sometimes... we have to map them the difficult way.
And yes, I'd mention it to her if the memory you chose was triggering.
Her focus on getting you grounded now is just right.
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I brought up the issue of a safe place tonight as a form of grounding, but referred to the backfire that occurred before I went into hospital. Was not blaming my T in anyway (seriously) but she volunteered an apology and said that she had not been able to pick up on cues she normally would due to my almost involuntary mask that I have in place (I don't even know I'm doing it half the time
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Going back to trauma work is still well off of the cards for now but we worked on an imaginary safe place tonight and I'm to work on tapping it in over the next week.
Will see how things go
Thanks again for the replies.
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Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA): UK