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When dissociation happens during intimate moments

I cannot stay present during sex even with someone I trust completely and I float away no matter how much I want to be there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system may activate protective disconnection patterns even in desired intimacy when past experience has linked vulnerability with danger.

Ideas that help explain it
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