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Originally Posted by HazelGirl
My T talks about how when we experience trauma, our hearts go into hiding, they close off, and we go numb.
Anyone else's T say anything similar? Anyone know where these thoughts comes from? I haven't been able to find anything relating to them online.
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Yeah, I would say she is describing dissociation - emotional dissociation in particular. My T will ask me what my heart wants and all I can say is I don't know. I've hidden my heart so well I've forgotten where I put it.
I call it being frozen - I have images to go with it that describes the feeling better but I haven't been able to put them into words yet. Sort of like frozen white marble surrounded by ice...
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At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
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Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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