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As someone who did learn how to dissociate during my childhood, I find this description to be very accurate. “Dissociation is a common response to trauma. The experience of being present and in the moment when we are severely abused and traumatized and feel powerless is incredibly painful. This is when our psyche self-protects and…
Sharing – Music Is Just as Powerful at Improving Mental Health as Exercise, Review Suggests
I have noticed that playing music around our house definitely raises my spirits in a similar way as exercise, so it’s nice to know that researchers are looking into some other options for helping our mental health above and beyond “get more exercise”.
What I like more though, is a research article that contains this common-sense reminder about how we are all different:
Link – The two kinds of stories we tell about ourselves
Thinking about this from the perspective of a survivor, there’s some real truth in it. An individual’s life story is not an exhaustive history of everything that has happened. Rather, we make what McAdams calls “narrative choices.” Our stories tend to focus on the most extraordinary events, good and bad, because those are the experiences…
