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Originally Posted by hangingon
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
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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
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Hi Hangingon,
I had something like this happen today in therapy. I was staring straight at my therapist while she was talking and I was struggling to follow her.
I think its ADD for me. the struggle to keep my attention on whats she is saying VS my mind drifting feeling over loaded . I have to have her repeate some times.
I have also experienced dissociation thats trauma induced by triggers.
triggeres are visual and sometimes visual with voice. They can be a voice over the phone as in breathing .
When this happens its like a wall goes up before me and the person . like a thick layer of air . Im usually in a hold position or freezing .
sometimes I have to look away.
Its just like your name.
just holding on because its all you can do. I never was able to get to the point of telling the therapist it was happening . So signaling was never adressed.
I think he asked at times what was going on and I could not tell him . Because it was sexual in nature. The holding on is getting control so I don't have to talk about it. My mind just goes blank
The signaling sounds like a good intervention . .
I have cpstd
I spook easily .. yesterday loud sounds were making my skin hurt all over
Patricia