This week we discuss dissociation. If you dissociate, you may feel disconnected from yourself and the world around you. Dissociation is one way the mind copes with too much stress and trauma. As a result you may have an out of body experience and amnesia. You can potentially feel your identity shift and change which a doctor or psychiatrist might call these experiences identity alteration. Depersonalisation may occur, making you feel disconnected from your own body. Derealisation might also happen, which makes you feel disconnected from the world around you. This is your mind's way of trying to protect you from the current environment as it perceives it as a threat. In this episode we talk about methods of reducing dissociation and out experiences of having gone through it.

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