Your Resonant Self by Sarah Peyton

Author:Sarah Peyton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Identifying Traumatic Dissociation

Self-identifying dissociation can be almost impossible, because part of the brain is offline, which prevents people from seeing the full picture of themselves. The cues that a person might be experiencing dissociation without noticing it include not having any idea what is happening in the body; breathing quite shallowly; having a sense that the self is inanimate—made of wood, cloth, or metal (a puppet, a doll, or a robot); having a sense that the world is not real—that other people are aliens, robots, or insects; feeling numb, bewildered, and out of synch during social interactions; experiencing unexpected or cued intrusions of past memory; losing time; hearing voices; not understanding what people are asking, or feeling ashamed when asked, “What’s happening in your body?”; or finding it hard to remember events or timing of events that happened with family or friends (not having relational memory). People in dissociative states are unable to learn from experience, so they keep making the same mistakes over and over again. They get involved in painful relationships with people who are not able to see them, or they remain in addictive relationships with substances or activities.

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