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Card #c183IR // #c183Synthesis

During moments of high trauma, people sometimes enter a dissociative state in which it’s still possible to access ordinary emotions but not to cope with the extraordinary ones.

— In our words · Source: London Falling (Patrick Radden Keefe)

[Use when]

Use when describing dissociation under high trauma.

[Why it matters]

Dissociation as emotional triage — the system keeps the lights on for small feelings while the big ones wait outside.

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