Can Ptsd Cause Splitting?

Childhood Trauma Splitting is a psychological mechanism that allows someone to tolerate difficult and overwhelming feelings. It is often seen in Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) who suffer from Complex PTSD

Complex PTSD

Complex post-traumatic stress disorder.

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or childhood trauma.

What is trauma splitting?

People who experience trauma from an early age must protect themselves in some way in order to cope. One means of protection is to “split off” the part of themselves that is experiencing the trauma. This results in the traumatized person having a fragmented psyche. Fragmentation is really a protective strategy.

Is splitting a form of dissociation?

Splitting is a special ~e of the more general category of dissociation, in which elements are separated even though according to some external criterion they should be coordinated. Affective splitting involves separation along the positive/negative evaluation dimension, or more generally between opposites.