I have these really intense episodes of dissociation where I just feel like everything around me doesn't really exist, like my entire idea of reality could just snap away in an instant. It's like I could wake up at any moment from a dream even though I know everything around me is real. I don't know what causes these episodes to happen but I hate them so much. (I'm having one rn btw.)

This is superb. The presenter discusses presentations of dissociation spanning the breadth of how it has shown up in various settings where I have worked. Being able to recognize these things as dissociative phenomena speaks to the way we may intervene and also the care we may need to take when helping a person re-embody, for example, some disembodied content. Thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Great share.

Where can I make an appointment with her!? I have been to countless therapists..all trash! Probably because I have state insurance 🙄

Intellectualizing is exactly what I do all the time.. I explain it all perfectly well but feel nothing. I've reached a point where i can simply sit and laugh about it lol.. Great video btw

I love I know you are talking about me. I was not allowed to be the resting child. I was the worrier and the parent. i was not allow to desire an education or to succeed.

I hold tention in my brain 🧠 and entire body , until now at 62

This is very helpful explanations for what many, including therapists, can’t effectively explain or perhaps miss out on nuances in between the more obvious dissociation displays. Had a therapist who didn’t think that I dissociate bc I didn’t just freeze and non responsive! I was more aware of it!! But I didn’t know, until recent trauma work with a psychiatrist who has really awakened my attention to how pervasive my dissociation is with CPTSD.

So, often when I start talking about something emotionally charged or traumatic, I suddenly go blank. Then telling my story becomes really choppy or fragmented. My therapist said I am dissociating, but what is this type called? I used to think I was just having ADHD symptoms before it became apparent I only do this when talking about something emotionally charged.

Lost time was precisely how I realised I experience dissociation

Halleluja, thank you so much! I am looking to understand what have happened to me. It is not so easy to find concrete explanations of dissociation symptoms.

I would like this to expand to whenever we feel in a minority for any reason. Ethnicity can be seen as source of belonging rather than victimizing people around us. Feeling connected to the roots of our appearance that mother nature figured out for us according to the natural conditions for our best survival and our ancestral communities for our survival, consciousness and spiritual expression, healing and evolution is a way to reconnect with our bodies.

I love the way you talk, it is so natural, thank you!

And blessings for how I even found this. Just registered for this Advanced Master Program with the faculty I've been aching for...... and magically the timely space to thoroughly digest and apply it all. Soooo deliciously exited

This is the first time I’ve heard stigmatization of emotion discussed as a cause for dissociation. I have mild depersonalization very frequently, and I grew up in a household that was loving but mostly disallowed certain emotions. (Not like I’d be punished, but just like “no, we don’t feel that way”)

Thank you for sharing this information. It's very helpful to bring awareness

Oh, thank you for this very wonderful video. It's superb in so many different ways. I feel truly enriched by it.

I began subscribing to NICABM workshop modules in 2021-2022, I have had visceral sympthoms and what I can term as clinical depression since the day I knew I was me. It is with Nicabm that my dogs barks, have began to turn to growls. I believe am getting there.

Thank you for such clarity

Thank- you! Thanks for helping people sort through trauma!

Excellent presentation. Thank you 🙏🏻