The Role of Ego in Trauma

There is a difference between getting triggered and feeling young, right, or feeling defenseless. That kind of thing is more the hallmark of what we would call structural dissociation. We get into different states of mind when we get triggered, but they're all sort of experienced as me. Only sometimes we say, well, that wasn't like me. But that doesn't mean we have DID. It just means that we haven't fully integrated everything about our history - which we never do.

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