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When Dissociation Makes You Feel Like a Stranger to Yourself

I feel like I am watching my life happen to someone else and I cannot connect to my own emotions or experiences anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Consciousness creates distance from embodied experience as protection against overwhelming sensation and feeling.

Ideas that help explain it
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