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Old Feb 03, 2016, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by AnxiousGirl View Post
Last session we got into some pretty deep stuff and at one point it felt as if the room was getting smaller and smaller and I had the urge to ask my T if I could leave the room and get some air then come back.

I didn't do that however and just sat through the entire session feeling extremely anxious.

Have any of you walked out of session before? What did T say/do? Did you come back?

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I feel like this a lot. I have only walked out once and then called my t later that day, but it was for a reason unrelated to anxiety (I misunderstood something she said). She was genuinely concerned about why I left because I didn't say anything. I just got up and walked out.

A lot of times I feel like the room is shrinking but my t seems farther and farther away. This usually happens when we talk about my past. I haven't actually left because of this but I've told her that I want to. She encourages me to stay and work through how I'm feeling, mostly because she's worried for my safety (usually this precedes me dissociating completely) but also because she believes healing can take place in a radical way when I'm at my most vulnerable state. I've taken her word for it because I truest her, but usually I don't feel like there's been any "healing," just a lot of yucky feelings and then I have to leave and deal with it on my own for the next two weeks until I see her again
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