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When focusing feels like disappearing from yourself

My therapist says I dissociate during stressful conversations but I thought I was just focusing really hard on staying calm.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mechanisms we use to manage overwhelm can become prisons that separate us from direct experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Attention and focus — the science?”

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