Stupor, freezing, depersonalization: defense mechanisms against shock
Many people know about protective reactions to a stressful situation, which are conventionally called "hit/run/freeze. Let's talk about numbness, which is often how people automatically react to danger.
If there is no way to escape.
Someone can mobilize, his body instantly comes to the readiness "fight or flight. But if a person can't fight, can't run, he falls into dissociation, freezes.
Inhibiting emotion
In the background of shock, a person's emotional perception may be impaired. Yes, he lives as usual, walking, breathing, doing everyday things. But he feels nothing. He has an emotional emptiness, a pit, the whole world seems to be colored gray.
How else dissociation can manifest itself
1. amnesia
2. Normality
3. Flashbacks
Many people know about protective reactions to a stressful situation, which are conventionally called "hit/run/freeze. Let's talk about numbness, which is often how people automatically react to danger.
If there is no way to escape.
Someone can mobilize, his body instantly comes to the readiness "fight or flight. But if a person can't fight, can't run, he falls into dissociation, freezes.
Inhibiting emotion
In the background of shock, a person's emotional perception may be impaired. Yes, he lives as usual, walking, breathing, doing everyday things. But he feels nothing. He has an emotional emptiness, a pit, the whole world seems to be colored gray.
How else dissociation can manifest itself
1. amnesia
2. Normality
3. Flashbacks