EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:Dissassociate....and others
Sandra Paulsen Inobe PhD · 08/29/03 at 11:37 ET
Dissociation (not dissassociation, though many people ihcorrectly spell and pronounce it that way) is what happens when someone learns to disconnect from their feelings and body sensations and awareness, during times of extreme distress (trauma). When someone learns to do it as a child during severe, chronic and inescapable trauma, it sometimes because a habitual way of being in the world. It results in discontinuity of identity, memory, consciousness. It can result in diagnosable dissociative disorders in some cases, or it can be relatively mild in other cases. It can be black, white, or all the shades of great in between, in terms of severity. I don't know what other words you are asking about, so can't respond without specifics. Just be aware that professionals talk to each other on this forum, though the public is also welcome, so its not surprising if some of the talk gets technical. Sorry about that. Its a common thing, by the way, that when a member of the public first starts reading about mental conditions, they decide they have every one in the book! Psych 101-itis we call it. So I hope readers keep that in mind and don't assume that just because something seems familiar that that proves that they have it. A licensed mental health professional can help you with sorting out if you have something in particular.
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