✭ 3.3 Early Days Rerelease: Emotional Dissociation (AKA Numbing)

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August 29, 2020

black and white | coping skills | disassociation | emotional fluctuations | emotional numbing | maladaptive coping | research | S3E3 | trauma adaptation | trauma responses

How are your emotions? Black and white, like everything else? 0 or 100? Big surprise, your trauma brain is just trying to keep you safe. 

Today, I’m discussing some research on Emotional Dissociation as well as my own experience with the learned defense mechanism. The emotional “switch” that flips when things are overwhelming… and how it takes on a life of its own. 

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