- Where the automatic survival or protective response kicks in causing the person to “detach” from the pain or stress they are experiencing
- It can lead to the neglect of real-life tasks instead of retreating from the real world and into the imagination
- When a person experiences something traumatic one way to cope with it is to make a clean mental break from themselves
- When unable to physically escape the situation or remove the memory the brain can attempt to mentally escape it
- It’s a way of trying to keep the person safe and happy at the cost of detaching from everything
Links to ADHD §
- Trauma and ADHD can both cause similar symptoms (though it doesn’t lead to ADHD), though trauma symptoms go away over time and with healing