Dissociation means you feel disconnected from your thoughts, feelings, memories, body, or surroundings. Your mind shifts away from the present to cope with stress, overwhelm, or reminders of past experiences. Some people notice it rarely. Others notice it often, and it affects daily life. Dissociation you may notice in these ways… The SCID-D is a structured clinical interview that helps…
Why the urge to leave, or disappear, is a meaningful part of the work There are moments in therapy when something in you says: I have to get out of here. Your legs want to move, your chest tightens, and part of you is already planning the exit. It doesn’t always look dramatic from the outside, but internally the system…
One of the things that becomes clear in relational therapy is how intelligent our defences are. Intellectualising, the tendency to analyse, explain, and think our way through experiences rather than feel them, isn’t a failure of emotional awareness. It’s a sign that somewhere along the line, staying in the head felt considerably safer than dropping into the body and its…
A stiff neck, a clamped jaw, a hollow ache in the chest that has no obvious cause. Most of us have learned to explain these away as bad posture or getting older. Sometimes that’s accurate. Sometimes the body is holding something the mind hasn’t found words for yet. People who come to therapy often say something like: “It wasn’t that bad.…
Dissociation is something most people experience in mild forms. You drive a familiar route and arrive without remembering the journey. Your mind drifts completely away from a conversation. You feel briefly unreal, as though you’re watching yourself from a slight distance. These experiences are common and usually pass quickly. For some people, dissociation goes considerably further. At the more significant…