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Originally Posted by zelaer
I don't really know how to bring it up because it was a few months ago since we switched to just discussing depression and anxiety, I don't know if I'll be able to bring it up at all because of the fear of having to do trauma work again. I don't think there's a way to do anything with it without discussing trauma is there?
My meds have a "rare" occurrence to cause depersonalization and derealisation respectively and not really concentration? I don't think they cause it because of how random it is, while I take the medicine at regimented times...
I don't think it's daydreaming because I think the one time I did was when I was processing all the ways a car crash could occur as my mom was driving into the interstate... and I don't feel anything when I zone out, rare if I think about anything
It just feels random to bring up the stuff from months ago now... plus if it is talking about trauma that causes it, therapy would go back to being an issue again :/
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I have found that its not so hard to talk about dissociation and not talk about the trauma's, dissociation is one of those things that can happen in any number of normal, mental and physical health problems, knowing this allowed me to be able to address my dissociation problems with out having to rehash all the trauma's that my treatment providers and I were not working on at that moment.
how did I do it? here's an example using your post...
me... I am having a problem feeling like I have dissociation problems when I am stressed out, when my depression increases, during therapy and its more notice able during social situations, can you help me?
Therapist... sure there are many different grounding techniques I can teach you, first tell what you call dissociation and when does those feeling happen.
me... I feel this way and that way when I am stressed out I have tried this or that but it hasnt worked ...
see what I mean. since dissociation happens even to normal people in normal situations its pretty easy for me to not talk about actual traumatic events while at the same time getting my needs met on addressing my dissociation problems.
my treatment providers have a saying... "if it bothers you its worth bringing up, thats what I'm here for" I follow that by bringing up what bothers me even if at the moment our therapy work is on something else. sometimes it is worth it to veer off course of scheduled topics to address immediate concerns in me.