yessssssssssssss nearly every session. The fogginess, the not being able to hear T or think, spacing out... usually have to be "brought back to the room" or do grounding excercises.

Then there is the switching...
Tho, it may have been on purpose because the host really doesn't know anything. We have to talk through her. But the adults rarely get triggered out into being, it is usually the kids, which are moody and not good talkers. Sometimes I am there, when no one else will speak up. The last time it happened one of the quiet kids came out and took over (several are co-conscious). And she cried because she thought she was in trouble.
I do have to wonder at times about T, because when the kids were out, the T would use words that she knows are triggers - but the kids (as in life) couldn't tell her not to use them. It does boggle the mind. I would like to tell her off for that, but I am rarely around then. It always makes the kids feel bad - like they are dirty and being used, and that they have to stay silent and let it happen. I don't know how the T would react if we ever managed to tell her that. But I don't see how she could not know. And the weird thing is, she never uses those words when the adults are out or the host. It felt like she was doing it on purpose to either anger the kids, or to maybe "shake them out" of being kids and be the adults? It doesn't make a lot of sense.
Hardest part is functioning afterwards when one 12 or younger is behind the wheel and returning to work. We have had to sit in the office parking lot for a while to get back to who we should be. Couldn't sit in front of the T's office - didn't want to be seen having to pull ourselves back together.
Narrator of Kiya