Understanding Trauma Survival Responses: Dissociation with Dr. Kate Truitt

In this psychoeducation video, Dr. Kate Truitt introduces us to the trauma survival response dissociation. Dr. Kate clarifies that in this video, dissociation refers to how our mind and body use dissociation to survive a traumatic encoding and how it might continue to show up in our life.

Dissociation is a normal part of everyday life that allows our brain to run in an autopilot state to help us survive. In trauma, our mind separates us from a stimuli or experience so intense that we think we might die. Dr. Kate explains that dissociation is also known as a thanatosis state, or playing dead. Humans have been socialized out of that tremor trauma release experience that animals go through after thanatosis. Instead, our system encodes the experience and carries it forward.

When we dissociate, we see decreased activation in Amy the Amygdala, depersonalization, disconnection, and numbness. In extreme forms of dissociation, we can see DID, depersonalization and antirealization disorder, and dissociative fugue.

Dr. Kate reminds us that healing is possible. The best way to do this is by getting our amygdala back online with ice cubes, sour candies, biting a lemon, or dunking our head in cold water. Then, once we feel more present, we can apply CPR for the Amygdala.

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Dr. Kate Truitt is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, as well as holds a MBA in Healthcare Administration. She is the CEO of the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles, Chairman of the Board of the Amy Research Foundation, and leads her flagship organization Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates located in Pasadena, CA. Her teams of expert psychologists and psychotherapists provide individual therapy, group therapy, executive coaching, and neurofeedback throughout California via telehealth.

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