You are driving on your way to work - the windows are down, your favorite podcast playing, but then something said in the podcast makes you think about a conversation you had with a friend the night before.
Thank you for raising and educating on this vital piece of the trauma/chronic illness puzzle. Interesting that you mention getting "stuck on" - my theory of 'Idiopathic' Parkinson's is this is when the tonic immobility freeze stress response gets stuck on. One of my favourite/most useful framings of dissociation is as part of a natural defense cascade as explained in the terrific paper "DISSOCIATION FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC STRESS: ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT," (sorry for the capital letters of the copy-paste) https://www.complextrauma.uk/uploads/2/3/9/4/23949705/dissociation_following_traumatic_stress.pdf
Thank you for raising and educating on this vital piece of the trauma/chronic illness puzzle. Interesting that you mention getting "stuck on" - my theory of 'Idiopathic' Parkinson's is this is when the tonic immobility freeze stress response gets stuck on. One of my favourite/most useful framings of dissociation is as part of a natural defense cascade as explained in the terrific paper "DISSOCIATION FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC STRESS: ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT," (sorry for the capital letters of the copy-paste) https://www.complextrauma.uk/uploads/2/3/9/4/23949705/dissociation_following_traumatic_stress.pdf