Trauma and dissociation
Attachment, trauma, psychological shock and dissociative disorders, clearly explained.
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- OCD and obsessions
- Anxiety and stress
- Emotions and wellbeing
- Relationships and family
- Trauma and dissociation
- Personality
- Asperger’s and neurodiversity
- Mind, brain and medication
- Going to therapy
Trauma and dissociationA closer look at dissociative identity disorder
What vertical dissociation is, how childhood trauma and disorganised attachment fragment identity, and the most common symptoms of DID.
Trauma and dissociationAttachment styles and their link to trauma
Secure, avoidant, anxious and disorganised attachment: how they differ and why disorganised attachment raises the risk of trauma.
Trauma and dissociationDissociative disorders
What dissociation is, what defines a dissociative disorder according to the DSM-5, and the main types: DID, dissociative amnesia and depersonalisation.
Trauma and dissociationWhat Is Traumatic Paralysis (Psychic Sideration)? Part 1
Why some victims of assault freeze: what psychic sideration is, how it differs from dissociation and what happens in the brain during trauma.
Trauma and dissociationWhat Is Traumatic Paralysis (Psychic Sideration)? Part 2
Psychic sideration and dissociation after trauma: what happens in perpetrator and victim, and why the worse the trauma, the less victims are believed.
Trauma and dissociationSymptoms of dissociative identity disorder (part 1)
Dissociative amnesia, micro-fugues, identity fragmentation and disconnection: the first groups of symptoms of dissociative identity disorder (DID).
Trauma and dissociationSymptoms of dissociative identity disorder (part 2)
Part two on the symptoms of DID: bodily symptoms, intrusions and voices, emotional regulation, mentalisation and the beliefs of each identity.