Tag: dissociation

One of the strangest and perhaps most harmful symptoms of dissociative identity disorder is dissociation. Possibly dissociation is strange because other people aren’t expecting to see it happen to you and harmful because you are not fully aware when you dissociate.   This article will focus primarily on dissociation...

Have you ever experienced yourself slipping into the freeze response? That feeling that you are too overwhelmed to move or speak when in therapy? This article will focus on strategies for you and your therapist to respond to and treat the freeze response. What is the Freeze Response? You...

Survivors struggle with many things. They have body issues, a hard time trusting others, and flashbacks. It is no surprise that survivors might find a place to hide in plain sight to lessen their pain.   This article will examine the armor that survivors of childhood abuse adopt to...

People living with dissociative identity disorder (DID) often dissociate and lose time; it accompanies the diagnosis. However, as typical as this symptom is, many of us fear the most from our disorder. This article will attempt to lay aside some of the fear and relate hope to those living...

One might think that dissociation is an abnormal condition that only happens to people who have lived experience with childhood trauma. They would be wrong. Dissociation is a totally normal human reaction to boredom or becoming overstressed. What happens when dissociation becomes abnormal? What are the causes for the...

Remembering yesterday comes easily for most adults. They can recall events and details about where they were and whom they met with relative ease, even after several days have passed. It is not so with people like me who live with the amnesia that accompanies dissociative identity disorder. All...

There are many psychological disorders which, if you are not in the know, may seem obscure or strange. Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is one such condition. The public view of DID has been shaped by what they see in the movies and popular television programming. Many folks, upon hearing...

There is a wonderful online resource of hope and support for anyone who experiences dissociation. I have spoken of this wite before, but it has relocated to a different URL. The website I’m speaking of is Ivory Garden Living Together with Dissociation. Ivory Garden was the first site I...

If you are like most people, you need a deeper explanation of Complex Traumatic-Stress Disorder. I wrote the following article for The CPTSD Foundation to aid others in understanding this life-altering condition that is the direct result of traumatic events either in childhood or as an adult. As many of my...