I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD last year.
While in session yesterday, my T was asking me stuff and I felt as if I drifted away, I could hear her but she sounded further away. When I was responding to her it seemed to take forever to get the words out, at least in my mind. I am not sure how much she noticed. At one point, I wanted to say I need you to stop, I just needed it quiet for a minute but I didn't know how to voice that to her, or how I would explain it after. My mind was having a hard time sorting through things and trying to get the words out.
It happened when I was at dinner with a friend last weekend. He was talking away and I had to go somewhere else in my mind, to focus on something else for a minute because it was too much. It was like I was overstimulated and I needed to block him out for a minute.

I was wondering if this is part of PTSD or something else because this doesn't really happen to me but I have been stressed a bit more lately.

Thanks
Hangingon