I like to think of dissociation like a firefighter. When an internal alarm signals danger, the firefighter wakes up, puts on its firefighting gear, rushes to the rescue, and does what it knows how to do: dissociate.
In therapy, we can get to know the part that dissociates. Rather than finding it annoying or scary, we can be curious about why it does what it does.
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