Posted by Dinah on August 29, 2003, at 21:29:27
In reply to Re: Now about those tranferences......, posted by judy1 on August 29, 2003, at 17:56:49
I call it "whooshing". It feels like one of those places in the movie where the camera quickly pans out and everything looks distorted. I don't do it so often anymore.
And I have other ways of dissociating too. It's my favorite coping mechanism, so I've got quite an impressive collection.
I most often just blank out. I might even be answering him, or I might be "staring at dancing angels only I can see" (as he puts it). But my mind just goes blank and I don't really take in what he's saying anymore.
We're trying to work on at least my being able to communicate to him what's happening when it's happening. And he's gotten pretty good at spotting it too.
Are you unaware when you're dissociating, Jane?
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