How I Deal With Dissociation as an Abuse Survivor

I can’t function when I’m not present

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I have a hard time feeling my feelings. I often don’t know they are there, until several of them gang up and perform an intervention on me — and then suddenly it’s all too much.

Abuse survivors are well known to dissociate. It’s a fairly common maladaptive response to trauma.