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How Trauma Can Shatter Your Sense of Continuous Identity

I feel like I am split into different versions of myself and the person I was before this happened is completely gone

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Overwhelming experiences create such discontinuity in the sense of self that integration between pre- and post-trauma identity feels impossible.

Ideas that help explain it
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