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Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,

where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.

Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the

capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,

we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.

So, are you ready to recover from reality?

There is a protective mechanism that takes over of this dissociation when the trauma is happening,

and sometimes it can take many, many years for people to come out of that, you know,

amnesia, the dissociation that happened during the trauma to remember.

But like you said, many people, they have a feeling that something that happened.

And also, if you look at the degree of mood and stability, of depression, anxiety, of hyper-vigilance,

of startle response, of urge to self-harm, of dissociation, reactivity, sometimes people are

afraid of the dark, they're afraid to go to sleep. All of these things can point to, yes, something

did happen. You can't remember it, but the way you're presenting now implies that something happened then.

I'm so excited about today's episode. We are sitting down with Dr. Sagan, who is the psychiatrist

for us here at my treatment center, Alohouse Recovery Center, and we're diving into the mind-body

connection, specifically regarding psychiatry. And I know that everybody is going to love this

episode because we're in a time now where for so many, the old approach, I don't want to call

it an old approach, but the typically trained approach to mental health and to psychiatry just

wasn't working for so many. And so we have amazing thought leaders in this community of doctors

now, yourself included, who are starting to look at the way that the body and mind are so connected.

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