How to Identify and Work with Dissociation
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
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A Three-Step Approach to Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation, with Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD
Dissociation can be tricky to spot.
On top of that, it can look awfully similar to freeze or shutdown. And to complicate things further, a patient might dissociate when they’re in either one of those trauma responses.
But being able to detect when a client is dissociating is critical for providing effective treatment.
So in this video, Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD, will name three key signs of dissociation - and will walk you through a three-step process for treating it.
If you’re looking for more ways to identify and work with dissociation, take a look at the Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma.
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
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.
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”)
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.)
That's the derealization part. I know it sucks it's difficult because you can't really quite communicate what is going on yet it is so intense.
It sucks I know. Disassociation makes it hard for me to go in public places like the salon or grocery store. That intense disconnected feeling from the surrounding sucks. Are you able to out in public without experiencing disassociation and anxiety?
@@raveenajayaraman7844 every time i go out of the house, i think i’m disconnected. just constant anxiety. not present. is that disassociation?
I love the way you talk, it is so natural, thank you!
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 am sorry for that loss of part of yourself. You are worthy of both education and to succeed at something you are passionate about.
The best is yet to come.
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.
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.
Clients: "How'd you know that?!"
Therapist: "I'm looking at you!"
😂 this made me laugh
Thank you for sharing this information. It's very helpful to bring awareness
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
Oh, thank you for this very wonderful video. It's superb in so many different ways. I feel truly enriched by it.
Thank you for such clarity
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.
Excellent presentation. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank- you! Thanks for helping people sort through trauma!
You are helpful to me.
I think many people who feel powerless may manifest in somatic.
Very good session thank you
you are a master teacher Dr. Bryant-Davis, Thank you
You sound very knowledgeable on a level I don’t understand very well.
Wow! You’re incredible
You are amazing! This is so helpful. Thank you so much!
Excellent summary 🙏🏽
Where can I make an appointment with her!? I have been to countless therapists..all trash! Probably because I have state insurance 🙄
KISS method of how their trauma presents itself. Disembodiment In the story gaps stunted emotional development may hide with clear storytelling showing where re-embodying emotional education is best applied and destigmatized, in the session of course, but vitally in personal movement practices, THey can practice between the deeper dives of 1on1 therapy. Yes, Superb
Excellent explanation, ty
Great presentation!
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.
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.
that's regular ol dissociation. dissociation is the umbrella term for any disconnection between the mind and body.
@@auntienyannyan Thanks, friend. I was starting to feel like I lost a bunch of brain cells, but maybe they’re just keeping low. 🙃
I would hope that your therapist can tell you "what type" of dissociative symptom this is. If they cannot be more specific, you need a better trauma therapist. Explore books by Bethany Brand, Janina Fisher, and Kathy Steele. Good luck!!
@@Cathy-xi8cb my therapist and me have never used words like ptsd or depression. we just talk about how i feel.
@@Cathy-xi8cb only the person being treated would know what’s good for him/her
Excellent video
I hold tention in my brain 🧠 and entire body , until now at 62
Me too.
Very good!!
Thank you
Thank you!
Lost time was precisely how I realised I experience dissociation
Yes.
This is interesting