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Sharing – Trauma-Related Dissociation: Symptoms, Treatment, Coping, and More
Of course, using this same defense mechanism in later life can be a problem, and when your brain has used this as a sort of “last resort” choice to survive, that might also mean that your memory of the event isn’t what others would like it to be. That’s OK, it helped you survive, that is the important thing. The rest is irrelevant if you don’t survive, so we are glad about that. Once you’ve survived, we can work on the rest of it.
Read more about the what, why, and how of dissociation at the link below.

Shared Links (weekly) July 10, 2022
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I Felt Alone Because My Depression Didn’t Look Like the Commercials
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What’s Wrong With Students? No—What’s Wrong With Us?– “Rather than blame students for a lack of well-being, colleges should consider institutional factors that contribute to the student mental health crisis.
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James Bay: ‘To be a man talking about mental health still doesn’t feel accepted’