Posted by Daisym on December 19, 2006, at 1:15:47
In reply to Does anyone have a signal?, posted by Dinah on December 18, 2006, at 17:24:02
Can you talk at all? Even a little? If you can, you might try, "I'm going away" or I really like, "my words are stuck" as mentioned above. Then he can back up and try to connect and bring you back.
I shake my leg, it is a nervous habit, but I only do it when I'm upset. So I guess that is our signal.
I'm sure your therapist can stand you more than 2x a week. But perhaps rational you can't stand emotional you more than that, so you shut you down. Does that make sense? I say a lot, "there is a war going on in my head."
My therapist would tell you that silence is OK too, to sit with it and just see what happens. But I hate, hate, hate that. I usually sit with it for 2 minutes and then burst into tears and yell at him for "making" me sit in silence.
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