I'll attempt to facilitate your achieving a deeper understanding of your mental processes, which should help you gain more insight into why you're experiencing these feelings. But we'll take that up next session. Right now, I want to hear how you've been doing *socially* since the accident.

Maybe the two disconnections are related. Do you feel like nobody cares about what you're going through?

[trying to calm annoyed patient] No, I’m just trying to relate your experiences into a common frame of reference to show you that it’s possible to get through it.