Where you can see this happen is with the use of very thick wetsuits. The weight is needed both to descend initially and to hold a safety stop during ascent. At the bottom of a dive, though, the suit compresses and that much weight is not needed, and it can be too much for some people.How much weight are you wearing that you can't ascend with it? Even if your bcd was completely deflated, I would think that you shouldn't have so much weight on you that you can't ascend under fin power. Maybe I'm wrong because I have never tried ditching my weights and ascending.
I saw this happen when doing OW dives in Colorado with thick wetsuits. I learned that one of our instructors, a man who never dived anything colder than tropical waters, was teaching students in their pool sessions that before beginning their ascents, they should dump all air from their BCDs and then swim up. It works in a pool with 3mm suits, but it is not so great in deeper water with thicker suits. I learned of this teaching concept when I had to drop quickly to grab a plummeting student.