One of my other issues is that we can only see each other's face and at times if the monitor gets moved a bit not even that.

This week we were in a pretty deep conversation and I somehow moved my screen. Shr stopped and asked of I could adjust my screen so she could see my face. She could only see my forehead and replies heavily on facial expressions to know if I am starting to dissociate. At one point she needed to ground me and bring me back to the presant. I could heat her and shake my head but not talk. She kept asking me to do grounding techniques which required me to talk. So I kept shaking my head no. What she couldn't see was that I was fidgeting with my teabag string and and coffee mug. Had we been in person she would have been able to tell that while I was somewhat frozen to a degree, I was not present enough to at least fidget. It would have likely prevented the frustration of her trying to ask me a lot of grounding questions that I could verbally answer.