Dissociation

Did you know that being disconnected from your body, unable to feel pain, feeling distant, or unaware of signals for things such as hunger or thirst is a form of dissociation? There are many reasons that one might become dissociated, or disconnected from their body.…

As a therapist I am not threatened by the idea that more people are self identifying as having Dissociative Identity Disorder because of social media. Dissociation and dissociative disorders remain unrecognized, undiagnosed, & therefore untreated in most mental health settings. This leads to unnecessary pain…

People who have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID or OSDD) often have parts of varying genders. By their very nature, parts are internal and can see themselves in any way that fits for them. So, this may mean they do not share the same age, gender,…

EMDR therapy is a powerful form of therapy that increases neural connections as part of the healing process. When there is a trauma, the experience tends to stay separate from normal learning, beliefs, information and experiences that would help it be digested and stored as…

The central conflict of dissociation is the need to know and not know at the same time. When something happens that overwhelms us and is too much for our brains and bodies to process, then we are faced with the desire to not know what…

This quote comes from the book Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Disorder. And it encapsulates the feelings of many surivors of trauma, of chaotic and dysfunctional childhoods. There can be a very strong need for survivors of such wounding to believe that they are at fault,…