Dissociation

What Is Dissociation?

Many people experience disassociation during their life. If you disassociate, you may feel disconnected from yourself and the world around you. You may feel as though you are detached from your body. It’s all the world around you is unreal. But everyone’s experience of disassociation differs.

Disassociation is one with the mine copes with too much stress, such as during a traumatic event.

There are also common, every day experiences of disassociation that we may have. Like being absorbed in a book, or a movie, that you lose awareness of your surroundings. When you drive a familiar route and arrive at your destination, without any memory of how you get there.

Experiences of disassociation can last for a short time -hours or days Or for much larger amount of time, like weeks or months.

Disassociation maybe something that you experience for a short time while something traumatic is happening. Some have learned to disassociate as a way of coping with stress ball experiences. This may be something that you’ve done since you were in your childhood.

I have found that many people who have had traumatic childhood experiences disassociate as a coping mechanism. Disassociation is a natural response to trauma that cannot be controlled. It could be a response to one traumatic event or ongoing trauma and abuse.

Disassociation might be a way to cope with very stressful experiences. Or some experience, then as a symptom of a mental health problem. For example, post traumatic stress, stress disorder, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or borderline personality disorder.

Some people from different cultures disassociate as part of certain cultural or religious practices. People may even experience disassociation as a side effect from alcohol, medication, or when coming off of a medication.

Disassociation can be experienced in a lot of different ways. Many psychiatrists have tried to group the experience and give them names. This helps doctors make a diagnosis. But A diagnosis does not mean that you have a illness.

If you experience disassociation you may feel:

• Detached or separate from the world around you
• See the world as a lifeless or foggy
• Feel like you’re seeing the world through a pane of glass
• Feel like you’re living in a dream
• Feel as though you are walking yourself from the outside
• Feel as if you are observing your emotions
• Feel disconnected from parts of your body or your emotions

Triggers often remind us of something traumatic from the past, which can cause you to experience Disassociation or other reactions. It can be something you here, see, taste, smell, or touch. It can also be a specific situation, or way you move your body.

It’s like a flashback. Where are you? May suddenly experience, traumatic, sensations or feelings from the past. The flashback might make you feel like you are reliving at a traumatic event in the present.

A flashback is a sudden, involuntary reexperiencing of a past from our event, as if it’s happening in the here and now.

The symptoms of disassociation often go away on their own. But many have learned to dissociate as a way of coping with stressful experiences. Disassociation may be a normal phenomenon, but like everything in life, all in moderation. It’s the brains defense mode. I believe it is an about valuable gift our brains are able to give us when we endure trauma. It shows that people are able to live through and survive, extra ordinary circumstances that no one would ever be able to endure without the brains ability to disassociate.