Sorry I should have said that the book explains attitudes like that of your therapist, and what other posters are saying is right, something so terrifying, whether life threatening or not, is incomprehensible to a child, so it is impossible to say that one reaction is "incorrect" and therefore signifies something else. Everyone reacts to the same even differently, it's to do with how they experience and perceive it.
Maybe your therapist just hasn't explained him/herself very well, or maybe they just don't understand very well. You should probably try and discuss this further with them.

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