How To Understand MY FRAGMENTED REALITY | DISSOCIATION & DID |Psychotherapy Crash Course

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Dissociation should be understood as being on a spectrum.

We all dissociation from time to time and struggle with overwhelming emotions that can trigger dissociation.

You may be asking yourself why you cannot find a theory or idea from the field of psychology on how to "heal" and manage dissociation.

There's A LOT of disagreement in my field on how to treat dissociation and better understand its origin.

In this video, I discuss one set of treatments of dissociation (and give you examples from my life to demonstrate the mild forms of dissociation).

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DISCUSSED IN THIS VIDEO:
0:00 intro
1:45 what dissociation means
3:48 ACTIVITY WITH ME
5:28 my mild dissociation (2 examples)
9:45 EXAMPLES of dissociation that you may experience
11:38 HOW PSYCHOTHERAPISTS FIX/TREAT severe dissociation
- Dissociative Experiences Scale
-Frasier's Dissociative Table

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[marie]

Great insight, so helpful. And it is sad trying to integrate because it's like losing a friend. If your separate you can be friends, if your together you can't call on that person separately anymore for help because your " one".

[daisydeg]

Great video very informative and educational thank you :)

[loridontcaretotellu]

Very interesting and informative as always, Tamara! I have struggled with disassociative episodes for years. I had no idea what was happening for quite awhile, just that I'd lose time and have these weird experiences that I couldn't explain. After all, how do you tell a friend or coworker that "I don't have any idea who that girl is that just said hi to me, talked as if she knew me and referred to me once as 'Nicole"? Her reaction when I corrected her was a look of utter confusion and so I quickly changed the subject but then she " had to run." I also had times when during the day and a few times in the middle of the night I'd come out of an episode outside, not knowing what I was doing and no memory of leaving my house. Some of this was terrifying when I'd come out of it as you might imagine! I never thought to ask myself how I come out of it but I was often curious as to what may have triggered it. Over the years it has lessened a lot and now, when I dissociate it happens in much less dramatic ways thankfully. In fact, unless someone knows me well or had experience as you do, the average person probably wouldn't know. Hope you are well, Tamara!

[tbmcnation]

i really appreciate your videos on this topic. ever since i was in middle school i started to notice that nothing felt real and like i was detached from physical reality. i remember talking about how i felt like i was watching life as if it was being projected on a two dimensional screen. i think that it's a bit better but there are still moments when i feel frustrated that i don't feel like i am alive, like anything is real, and sometimes like i don't exist to other people either. my memory of my upbringing is very spotty, too, to the point where multiple family members have noticed. it's very, very frustrating.

[truthutoda]

This is good. Thank you for your personal experience

[bunnysunny]

This was extremely informative and I appreciate you so much for sharing!

[CandiceWilson-up]

So I personally feel fusing and integration is important to recovery. Not that it has to be the current goal because maybe focusing on that at first can cause more issues than not. but at the end of the day it isn’t functional and it’s a disorder for a reason. If I liked being this messed up and it worked for me it may not be diagnosable which I think is questionable. I am entitled to become comfortable with my parts and accept that but with that come fusion of some sort. IMO recovery just ends up in that direction. I see a lot of people who maybe don’t want to change. Changing isn’t the goal, writing your story and getting to know every part of yourself to function better is. Naturally you have to gain some consciousness to do this. And integration and fusion doesn’t necessarily mean you completely lose those parts of yourself. It just becomes a more connected part of yourself like what normal people experience. And if it does go away that could be for a very good reason. To remain comfortable in a trauma response state does seem problematic and maybe even unnatural to the evolution of the self. I personally find the parts of me that are like this have selfish intentions or tend to cause trouble because they are too much one way or another. Anyways I do believe that the theories for treatment could be changed to approach the disorder in a more neutral manner

[yvonnelewis]

You are my go to for additional trauma information and resources on YouTube. I am a Certified Brainspotting Therapist specializing in trauma and I am wanting your recommended training and resources for Intergenerational trauma. Thank you in advance!

[juliabalzer]

I don't know when I am going to dissociat e I don't know how I come back sometimes I know sometimes when I am in it. It happens all the time I just know I lose time

[michealjordan]

Another informative video, they are great, I understand what you’re talking about but is disassociation a healthy behavior?

[chuchuepronouncedchoochool]

Dissociative here significantly with the Dissociative states voice writing health issues combined and separately change - livin it - therapy would take at least three life times - seriously and explaining it instead of healing at the hands of miss “ treatment “ is not the answer . Dissociatives do not have that much time therefore they’ll die before anyone could help them . Dissociatives minds are brilliant and that is what will give a dissociative What’s left of the rest of their Lives - Not studies and meds and being subject to admired observation . Period !

[JamieMitchellDesign]

What if someone is permanently disassociated? Where there is no off and on, but different states, but no separate parts or alters, where the person doesn’t know they are disassociated from state to state, resulting in a dream like existence.

[Homoclite]

I have been finding myself doing more and more of this with people who just run their mouths like Niagara Falls with Diarrhea. These people most often don't let me get a word in edgewise. They seem to really not care what I have to say. The reasons why we still talk at all is a bit complicated in my opinion. I won't make this another epic response.

[CherrysJubileeJoyfully]

Also from my experience it weirdly feels like cataplexy with narcolepsy 1 but that is triggered by any strong emotion good or bad

[anxen]

4 minutes in I remember I've seen this video 😂

[GenerationalDysfunction]

Why do I become so tired when I have switched for a task that personality wants to accomplish/experience then the personality starts fading I become very tired

[sr]

That test is impossible to answer because most people with DID don't go through their symptoms every day.