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How to stay present with overwhelming emotions without dissociating

My therapist says I dissociate but when I try to stay present with difficult emotions I feel like I am drowning and cannot breathe.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system lacks capacity to metabolize intense emotional states without fragmenting.

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