Hello! Sorry for the late mega last week. How are my disabled comrades doing?
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Why do I feel the need to be around someone who is angry at me? Like, I feel like I need their permission to leave so they’ll stop yelling at me. I’ve been trapped dissociating before, unable to leave while someone screams at me about not buying them cigarettes or some other thing
Freeze response? RSD?
Pretty severe fawn/freeze response. I’m not sure knowing the words has helped though, and my therapist says that I need to work on my alcoholism before anything else. Also, he completed ghosted me last session
not a therapist, but my understanding is that this is bad practice; because often addictions stem from other problems, refusing to work on the underlying issues at the same time is often ineffective/counterproductive.