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Blue_Bird · Apr 26, 2025, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Scooter9

I think you're beginning to experience that you can actually influence something that seemed to come as go on its own for a long time, dissociation.

I think you're doing it as a result of the work you're doing in therapy. It's indirect, but it's really powerful.

I had a similar experience with anxiety. It got into a pattern of coming and going, seemingly randomly and I accepted that and coped with it as well as I could. But with therapy, I was able to step back from the moment to moment ups and downs and realize that there are actually points at which I can influence what's happening. They were subtle and seemingly insignificant but they were there.

I think you're at the beginning of something that will help you a lot. Finally allowing some control in the chaos

Thanks

think it also helps that my new therapist is also a lot more effective than the one I was with for 8 years and is really experienced with trauma therapy. My last one was so nice but she just wasn’t like challenging me or working on trauma stuff and whatnot, we did light talk therapy for 8 years. And it wasn’t helping me grow or get any better, I just didn’t realize it till she passed away suddenly and I got switched to this new one that’s really helped me more in the past 6 months than my other one did in 8 years.