Labeled as both a coping mechanism and a defence mechanism, dissociation is common in the recovering who grow up in violent or tumultuous households, for those of us who’ve experienced trauma. It’s an intense version of fight-or-flight, where, when we encounter acute stress, our brains learn to shut off (flight) as an attempt to protect ourselves.
Our personal symptoms related to dissociation include forgetting like, all of our childhood, and being a really shitty driver, ‘cause we usually forget that we are a human, and that we are driving.
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