The good news is that you're not alone--there's probably a lot more folks who'd be labeled with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress "Disorder" around in high-functioning contexts than you'd think.
And at times like this, a lot of those behaviors actually aren't disorderly--they're necessary for survival, deeply human, and for better or worse always have been in our society given the context of experience many people endured.
But the more I learn about myself and others I've been privileged to know as friends and family-- veterans, returning citizens, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, friends from communities like Detroit that still suffer from legacies of racism and colonialism -- the arc of behaviors and healing from them are also fundamental to everyone's experience.
Dissociation and intrusive thoughts certainly have unpleasant directions--and I suspect they're also not too different from how people slip into daydreams. And literally as of 6 hours ago, I learned there are really sensible tools for changing that.
My friend Onyx Ashanti likes to say "the mind is the programmable conduit for intuition that exists between novelty and memory."
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[mindfulness]
[neurobiology to trauma/sexual assault]
[guide for sexual assault survivors]
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