Dissociation
Dissociation is usually due to the results of a trauma background. You may be familiar with the response people take to threatening events by way of fight Flight or Freese. The safe option is to flee the threat followed by fighting it if the option to flee is not available. But what about those who don't have either option. This is where a person becomes frozen. It is seen in child abuse where the child is powerless to flee or fight an overpowering adult, who may have easy access to them. The child in this case can go into freeze mode.
Dissociation is usually due to the results of a trauma background. You may be familiar with the response people take to threatening events by way of fight Flight or Freese. The safe option is to flee the threat followed by fighting it if the option to flee is not available. But what about those who don't have either option. This is where a person becomes frozen. It is seen in child abuse where the child is powerless to flee or fight an overpowering adult, who may have easy access to them. The child in this case can go into freeze mode.
What happens in Freeze But what is freeze mode like? Well for some it is a way of escaping the terrible situation they are facing or have faced in the past when those memories are triggered again, and again. 3 things are common;
- Depersonalisation
(feeling outside of yourself - looking on as if you are an observer.) - Derealisation:
(Feeling that the world around you is not real, akin to like it is a film or cartoon.) - Disassociation:
(Leaving, not being present at all, losing time, noting is real, not remembering the event)
The download shown above on Traumatic Dissociation will be available for download soon.
At Cork Counselling Clinic we offer support for people who are experiencing the effects of trauma along with the distressing effects such as Depersonalisation, derealisation and disassociation. We view the person as a whole person and not from a symptoms point of view. We work using am integrative and person cantered approach.