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When You Dissociate at Work Due to Childhood Trauma

I dissociate every time my boss raises his voice and I am thirty-five years old sitting under my desk in a corporate bathroom stall waiting for my body to feel real again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system is activating ancient survival patterns in response to present-day triggers that mirror past relational wounds.

Ideas that help explain it
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