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Why Trauma Can Make You Feel Like a Stranger to Yourself

I feel like I am watching my life happen to someone else and I cannot connect to anything or anyone anymore

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Chronic dissociation has severed the connection between awareness and embodied experience, creating a profound sense of alienation.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with PTSD and trauma?”

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