Headaches?

I dissociate in session fairly frequently. Recently I have been working on grounding with T so I can try to avoid checking out.

I have noticed and now it is quite obvious that I get headaches prior to dissociating. Yesterday we were deep in conversation and all of a susdden my temples were just throbbing with pressure. I said to T that I was getting a big fat headache. His response? "Stay with me Miss." So I did some deep breath work and was able to stay in the room pretty well. When I left I had no headache at all.

I had noticed the headaches before but thought it was coincidental but now I know it isn't. Has anyone else experienced this phenomena?

Sometimes I feel very sleepy and drifty before....and have a headache after.

hi, miss charlotte, when i go to counseling i dissociate at times and i found i got headaches right in the middle of things. i would be "switching" frequently and suddenly i would hear myself saying, "my head hurts" to my T.

she told me lots of people get headaches from dissociating. i've had migraines and other severe headaches. the ones' i get in counseling was from dissociating and they don't last long. she said that it happens because of switching back and forth. i'm sure stress plays a part in it also.

hang in there, i believe it gets better as you continue to work on the issues.

leslie and pixies

Definitely get headaches but I've had headaches ever since I can remember so I don't know that I pay much attention to them. T has noticed and mentioned that I sometimes rub my head but I don't know that even now I pay much attention to them other than a fleeting thought of having a headache. When I was younger, Drs looked for brain tumors, etc because of them. We didn't know back then what was going on for me though.

It's very hard for me to pay attention to what goes on with my body physically because it doesn't feel like it's my body. It's just the body I am in right now. I guess I've been ignoring that a body exists for so long that I don't know how to pay attention to it now unless I make a conscious effort.

All that to say, I just don't know lol. T has said things like, are you back yet, or similar, but I don't know if the headaches come before, during or after.

I don't think this post was much help, but I wanted to let you know I read it and want to support. It's something that maybe I should try to pay more attention to in order to figure out my brain better.

I don't remember ever getting headaches before dissociating, but would get them after. Got killer ones when I fought to stay grounded.

I am fighting to stay grounded now.

Same here... or after switching alters. Like Earth, i also do the getting sleepy thing before diss'ing out or switching (((((Miss)))))))