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Posted: December 4, 2022
Dissociation can be experienced as a result of drug and/or alcohol use. Dissociative experiences can happen during active intoxication and/or during withdrawal from certain prescription, over the counter, and recreational substances. Dissociative There are a variety of substances that can cause dissociative states during active…
Posted: December 4, 2022
Sadie is taking this time to reflect on her year, what she felt positively about and what she felt negatively about. She is taking stock and also thinking about and reflecting on what she would like to shed in the new year and what she…
Posted: December 4, 2022
Merriam-Webster announced last week that they were choosing gaslighting as their word of the year for 2022. And this fits in perfectly into my discussion of dissociation. This quote is taken from the book, Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Response: Ethical, Historical, and Cultural Issues. “Gaslighting…
Posted: December 4, 2022
I just finished a lovely fantasy novel written by Hannah Whitten, called For the Wolf, and in it the young woman, Red, loses her mother and she says, “I don’t think I can mourn her…I mourn the idea of her, maybe. The gap between what…
Posted: November 27, 2022
In Rutger Bregman’s Humans a Hopeful History he writes, “Treat people like dirt and they’ll be dirt. Treat them like human beings and they’ll act like human beings.” He writes about this in the context of how prisons are different in Norway and their approach…
Posted: November 27, 2022
Dissociation can occur in the context of any of the anxiety disorders: Generalized Anxiety Disorder Panic Disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Social Anxiety Disorder Specific Phobias In this context, dissociation occurs to protect you from the constant anxiety & stress put on your system by your anxiety…