Dissociation is very common in people with PTSD. Those who have experienced trauma, particularly from childhood sexual abuse, often fragment themselves. At the time of the trauma, it is a very effective defence. By dissociating yourself from events that feel like they threaten your existence, those events seem less real. The dissociation enables a victim to…
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My warring parts
It appears I’m finally indoctrinated into my therapist’s TA approach. I don’t know why, but I decided to spend some time thinking and writing about what my child and adult self would feel or say about each other. This led to the realisation that I am violently at war with myself. I’ve known for a…
Therapy today: Stubborn stuckness
Analogies start to wear thin after you’ve been in therapy for a while. My therapist does Transactional Analysis. So she talks a lot about the parts of me; child, adult and parent. I’ve started to resent it. Particularly the child stuff. It dawned on me just now that when I say something and J reflects…
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