Posted by alexandra_k on July 5, 2005, at 18:33:44
In reply to Re: I'd be keen » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on July 5, 2005, at 17:04:13
Actually... I seem to remember that dissociation may even have been slightly encouraged in the first couple months of skills training. The numbing aspect of it anyway. Preferable to feel numb than to feel consumed by emotion and SI as a way of escaping. Preferable to use dissociation rather than SI as a coping strategy.
But that was just initially - and for use as a last resort strategy before using SI (or phoning crisis services).
My t said I should avoid the exercises that made me feel dissociated once she realised my SI occured mostly in dissociative episodes.
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