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When mindfulness fails during dissociative episodes

I have been practicing mindfulness for two years but when I get triggered I dissociate so hard I cannot even remember what planet I am on.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Severe dissociation can render mindfulness techniques inaccessible precisely when they are most needed, revealing the limits of cognitive interventions.

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