Hey deserving listeners, today's episode is a deep dive on dissociation.

This is going to be part two of the Loneliness series that I've been working on.

It's not super related to loneliness, but I think by the end of this, I think it will be related enough to loneliness.

And also, this episode is just for patrons only.

So I'm going to have a bit of an intro here and if you're not a

patron it'll end early and if you want to listen to the full episode you have to

become a patron at patreon.com. Another caveat here is this is a major trigger warning for you all.

No joke if you suffer from PTSD dissociation or some other trauma syndrome or even you're suspicious that you suffer from trauma or trauma syndrome, I would seriously consider not listening or listening with your therapist's permission or

listening in short bursts.

I'm really serious about this.

I know some of you out there well enough to know that it would be not healthy for you to actually just

barrel through this episode without taking some precautions.

And if you're not sure, don't listen and or talk to your

therapist or listen with your therapist. It's very important because

dissociation is related to trauma and to talk about dissociation particularly the causes and the experience can absolutely trigger one's dissociation.

Now there's nothing wrong with dissociating it's it happens but if you

are unaware or don't have the coping skills yet that therapy can provide it can be quite

dysregulating so really major trigger warning so dissociation well in a

nutshell what it is is when you check out, you're traumatized or

you're highly distressed and our brains have this evolved mechanism apparently that allows us to separate ourselves from the event to protect ourselves.

Think of it like there's a mechanism in the brain that says, ooh, this is too intense for this person to handle.

Let's dial down the perceptual systems.

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