One Way to Reduce Dissociative Amnesia

In this video from The CTAD Clinic, Dr Mike Lloyd (Clinic Director) discusses a way to begin reducing the impact and occurrence of Disociative Amnesia, by looking at new present day memories. This is a technique recommended within therapy settings, as reducing amnesia for people with traumatic histories can sometimes lead to intrusions of dissociated memory.

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[ElizabethHawke-wj]

I was screwed either way Dr Lloyd, I was being tormented by the unknown and fragmented extremely traumatic experiences but when they did Christian EMDR in 2011 too much was released at once. I begged for help. I told my GP I was suicidal and he offered to write a note for my husband and inlaws to be mindful of my condition and be more compassionate. He asked me what I thought I was suffering from and I suggested PTSD. Another assessor told me it was impossible to remember a life-threatening trauma when I was only five months old. I struggled with great difficulty for four more years before my system devastatingly snapped during a horrific psychotic episode. I was immediately separated from my beautiful holy children who I dearly LOVE. Consequently, I'm terrified of amnesia work. I recently had a dream that it was a treacherous climb I was getting prepared for. Later in the dream a white cat spoke to me and tried to curl up on my lap. When I dream of my system it's consistently a hotel. Sometimes the room numbers relate to age. I was walking into room seven while a gay couple was leaving room eight. As they passed by me I heard them say, "It's very scary in there!" Eternal LOVE. 👑💜🕊️🌟

[loriandcrew]

Many memory lapses are subtle and seemingly inconsequential circumstances, but it's frustrating and makes me believe I have early dementia. It's not just the significant gaps that cause problems.

[kat-]

This makes work very hard to do correctly.

[kevinbissinger]

So grateful for you for making this content

[alysmarcus]

wonderful - i never thought of dissociation as a habit - or rather a behaviour the brain learns.

[kellyschroeder]

* saying to the brain you want to remember *

[evasif]

Thank you once again.
I suppose the same method and precautions could be used to remember the surroundings viewed through my eyes inspire of seing my self in the surroundings from the outside.

[nyctilia]

Could you make a video about EMDR? It was a major breakthrough for me and only after starting EMDR I even started having flashbacks. I barely felt anything for years. And it took me 10-20 minutes to actually access the memories we were working on but that was when emotional reactions started happening spontaneously without the ANP’s control. I experience something along the lines of OSDD-1b and I feel like in a way the EMDR-technique was almost a “mechanical” thing to keep my brain from dissociating. I have a lot of emotional amnesia and I feel like only after starting EMDR any kind of connection started showing.

[JesusLightsYourPath]

I'm not diagnosed with D.I.D. but I suffer from dissociation. Anytime I go to anything very stressful such as a therapy session or a job interview, I have to bring a notebook and write everything down otherwise I will get brain fog afterwards and forget what we spoke about.

[lana_blue]

With this exercise, is it important to remember the target present times memory with no visual cues, and without using positive sensory triggers?

Some of the work I do with my own clients that focuses on strengthing neural pathways uses a somatic (touch) based approach - and I guess my brain has created an imaginary hierarchy when it comes to techniques to facilitate neural connections 😅

I will also need to set some sort of reminder for myself to remember the memory. At least at this point, it feels as if it's extremely unlikely to happen organically.