I went to my t session Thursday feeling really closed off and having nothing to talk about. The strangest thing happened - I was trying to avoid some deep issues T knows I have in my journal and asked her about partial memories I'd been having. I can't even be sure there real memories or not, but they must be. I was frustrated at getting bits and pieces and not being able to put a whole memory strand together. I told her about a piece I'd gotten about about remembering how i felt sick alot in elementary school. Then i remembered one of my dads employees staying at our house with my brother and I when I was about 7. I usually had my little brother sleep in my bed with me after my parents went to sleep because I hated night and had a hard time sleeping. When this guy stayed with us I had my brother sleep on the floor in front if my door. This guy was scary and all I remember is this scary Halloween mask he would put on. My brother puked on the floor and I stepped in it and had to get this guy up from my parents room. He put me in my parents bed and made me stay there all night. That's all I remember. Then T told me to tell her again and I had this very weird experience where I felt like I became 7 again and how I was so scared of my parents door always being locked and how I felt like my parents room was both a place of terror and a sanctuary. I started tearing up and I could smell their room and I was very frustrated because I couldn't get my adult mind to take back control. I've never experienced this in therapy before. Is this normal? Has this happened to others and what do you do about it afterwards?