Tuesday, 1 September 2020 11:20:47 AM

You cannot protect the generations of the present and the if you do not understand how you failed past generations

Dissociation is the most common response in childhood to trauma; at the same time it is a diagnosis that can take up to 20 years to obtain.

From my experience learning about my own dissociation was a step in the right direction for my own recovery.

It is extremely uncommon to find instances where a child experienced only one incident that resulted in dissociation. One of the reasons for that is that dissociating is a defensive method deployed by our autonomic system which repeats any behavior that successfully got you through the first and any subsequent traumatic events. We often refer to these as coping mechanisms. This may well be the basis of many of the rituals we bring along from our past.

It is for me an incredibly interesting and important component in our survival and in our recovery.

Dissociation can be as subtle as a momentary digression of thought in a conversation through to panic at a perceived threat of total annihilation.

The psychology of a judge using dissociation to survive the trauma of what he hears and their ability to comprehend this same tool pushed to different extremes in childhood to achieve what the judge achieves on a daily basis and will be accompanied by a host of perceptions that may only be relevant to him or his judicial cohorts. This implies that there are many forms of dissociation in the daily lives of each and every one of us.