I’m fascinated by what you’re saying because I’ve often wondered, for example, about the people who were on the airplanes on 9/11. They knew there was a terrorist and that they only had moments to call their families. In that moment of terror, there must have been some sense of dissociation because many were able to still function enough to call family, or write a note, or rush the cockpit. Dr. Perry: What you are pointing out is how adaptive it is to partially dissociate in many situations. If a soldier in combat simply went down the arousal continuum—and got to the flee and then fight
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