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Originally Posted by Excession
I'm new to therapy and I wondered if anyone could share a similar experience, or put a name to what happened to me?
For most of my last session I completely shut down, hands over my ears, just listening to the white noise in my head. Eventually I heard my therapist say the session was over (she repeated it a couple of times) and I came to myself enough to quickly leave.
I found I was hugging myself afterwards and stayed functioning but "blank" for what seemed hours.
I think I know what triggered that state (nowhere near ready to talk about it) and I figure I had a freeze response, but I'm guessing. I'm also interested in why she didn't intervene?
Any insight/experience would be helpful, thanks.
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I did this today, too...I was almost completely silent, except when I was crying. She moved closer to me and took away the razor blade I was playing with and held out her hands to me instead, to take if i wanted to (I did, eventually.) I cried and she took a tissue and wiped away my tears. But she didnt try to make me talk and she said it was okay to be silent. She did comment on one thing tho- when I was dissociating I guess my body would shake or something every now and again and she asked me what was going on when that happened but I did not answer.