also forgot to add... your therapist also most likely keeps notes on what you said to them. this means they will be able to match when you said you dissociate with any dissociative symptoms you have told them about in the past sessions.

reason I wanted to add that is because sometimes people will go online after talking with their treatment providers and it messing things up for that person, sometimes they end up getting diagnosed not with what they are trying to tell their treatment provider about but rather something else that they may not have.

let me show you what I mean...

if I went to my treatment provider and told her I was dissociating. then she asked me what I meant, how was I dissociating. rather than telling her that I have this or that problem I go online and find out someones answer was hearing voices. ok I tell my treatment provider I hear voices. treatment provider writes me up as having schizophrenia not as a dissociative disorder.

but if I go to my therapist and say I am dissociating, I feel this way and that way and when this happens I feel that way. (telling the treatment provider what is actually going on inside me, not what I have learned online...)my treatment provider is going to say ah yes you are dissociating, would you like to learn some grounding tools so that you dont dissociate anymore.

one thing you need to know about the USA...in 2013 the mental health system changed over to a whole new standard/ list of mental disorders including what is called dissociation, what symptoms are called dissociation symptoms... what that means is you can ask online what dissociation means but you will get lots of answers from all around the world and they may not be what your treatment provider has on their list of symptoms for dissociative problems.

so again just answer your therapists questions based on when you told them you dissociate and what you meant when you said it. they will be able to help you.