Dissociation

❇️ Did you know that Dissociation is a protective reaction and occurs on a spectrum?

👉 There are various areas to the dissociative spectrum between what is normal and what is quite extreme levels. Some people may mostly have one of these but some have a mixture of many depending on the severity of the event.

🧠 Our brain uses different levels of dissociation to protect us from feeling pain when feelings and sensations are too overwhelming that take all the resources of the person to cope.

🔹Experiencing dissociation is part of the parasympathetic nervous system 'freeze - collapse' response.

⚡The spectrum of Dissociation from Low to Extreme
- autopilot mode in routine tasks
- daydreaming
- zoning out
- PTSD- trauma
- amnesia & memory problems
- depersonalization & derealization
- identity alteration
- dissociative identity disorder (DID)

🛸Sometimes it is described as the experience of being a “passenger” in one’s body, rather than the driver.

Check the graph here