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How Dissociation Creates Gaps in Personal History

My therapist says I dissociated during trauma but now I can't remember huge chunks of my twenties and I don't know who I was back then.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind's protective mechanism of disconnection can leave vast territories of lived experience inaccessible to conscious memory.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”

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