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When you are triggered, your nervous system is reacting to a reminder of trauma, not just what is happening in the present moment. Often you may have no conscious awareness…

When people think of memory, they often picture images or mental “movies.” But traumatic memories are more than that. They can also be stored in the body through emotions, sensations,…

Can My Body Be Triggered Before My Mind Knows It? Can the Body Remember Trauma? Can Triggers Happen Even If I Don’t Remember the Original Event? How Can I Tell…

Emotional amnesia is a dissociative experience in which a person can remember an event but cannot access the feelings connected to it. In therapy, this may look like describing an…

Dissociative thought loss has a different underlying cause than ADHD distraction. In dissociation, access to a thought is suddenly interrupted. The person may be in the middle of speaking or…

A thought disappearing mid-sentence is a dissociative experience often called “thought snatching.” It does not happen because of distraction or ordinary forgetfulness. Instead, access to the thought is suddenly interrupted.…

Thought snatching is the sudden disappearance of a thought while you are thinking or speaking. It is not ordinary forgetfulness or distraction. Instead, it is a dissociative experience. Some people…

Memory sharing in dissociative systems often improves as the system becomes safer and more stable. One aspect of this is intra-system safety: parts being able to cooperate with each other.…

Dissociative systems developed to handle overwhelming experiences by dividing those experiences and memories among different parts of the system. As a result, some memories may be available to certain parts…

A common dissociative experience is remembering that a conversation occurred and that it mattered, but losing access to the details later. You may recall feeling relief, clarity, or insight in…