Disassociation is one way that our brain keeps us safe from things that may cause us stress or harm. Whether it’s a simple moment of daydreaming or constant state of dissociation in an abusive relationship, being cognitively and physically disconnected is not conducive to healing.
During this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer and Elisabeth discuss the spectrum of dissociation and how it can affect the interoceptive system, or how we process and send information to the brain. They go over the symptoms of dissociation, sharing their personal experiences of dissociation related to childhood trauma.
Our survival brain sees healing as a threat, but there are ways to rehab the deficits in the nervous system to give more clear information to the brain, helping us to think and see more clearly. For example, training our interoceptive system can fight our hypersensitivity to threats and bring us out of disassociation.
To learn what tools can help you retrain your nervous system and the learned conditioned responses that are no longer serving you, tune in to this episode!
Topics discussed in this episode:
● Misconceptions about dissociation
● The definition of dissociation and its symptoms
● Dissociation as a protective mechanism
● How the interoceptive system works
● Dissociation and the freeze response
● How dissociation affects the body and how we feel pain
● The link to avoidance behavior
● Tools to bring yourself back from a state of dissociation
● Body dysmorphia and deficits in the visual system
● Living in the body to find a safe place to feel and heal
● Dissociation as an effect of peak somatic experiences
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