How to help people who dissociate.Friesen, James G
When you arrive at the party, someone comes up to you and starts talking with you, and as this is happening, your mind starts racing, your heart begins pounding, you start sweating, and it feels almost like you're dissociating from yourself, like it's an out-of-body experience, and yo...
Have you ever wondered if you dissociate? Do you have moments where you feel out of touch with yourself, feel detached, or like time is passing too slowly or quickly? These are just a few of the signs of dissociation. If you want to know more about what it is and how to cope with...
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Even now, there are still times when I find intimacy so tough that I dissociate. For anyone who’s not sure what "dissociation" means in this context, let me explain. Basically, when I’m supposed to be "enjoying the moment" something bizarre occurs in my brain – it feels like I’...
As a minimalist parent, striving to reduce the material rewards you give your child for doing things like their homework, the dishes, or going to the dentist will help them dissociate physical rewards from doing the right thing. Living With Less Teaches Gratefulness Teaching your children to be...
There are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. But that may shortchange the future—which starts by our envisioning something better.
It might also be beneficial to ask about how a client has managed feelings such as anger and sadness in the past. If they express that they rarely feel such emotions, they might be rather closed-off to their internal experience as well. Similarly, if a client has atendency to dissociatefr...
Credit to New Yorker for this awesome illustration I think that what we are doing with biohacking is the beginning of humanity’s split into different species. Enhanced posthumans who will not look anything like the humans of today. Unenhanced humans who choose not to do this for their own...
Although all our instincts urge us to dissociate from the killer, achieving better understanding requires us to put ourselves in his shoes no matter how frightening and distasteful that may be. I have done this over the past 20 years, and I have learned that it’s the only way we can und...