Fisher's examples are all peple who are overwhelmed by flashbacks, who blend readily, and who have easy communicationo with their parts.

A smaller number of us found that if we blunted emotions, denied them, were ashamed of them that we could behave in an acceptable manner.

We are the functional trauma folk.

Yes this can be a win. I have had several careers. Most people who meet me would say that I'm a bit eccentric, but otherwise unremarkable.

But it has it's price:

• I don't know what love is. Closest I can come is "strong like" Never fallen in love.
• I don't fully trust. Not much really matters to me, but for those things that do, I do not trust you to not harm them.
• I live in my head not in my heart. Some escape in fiction. Some escape playing and composing music. Some escape in things like trampoline, canoeing, ridge walking in the rockies. So most of the time I'm only half alive.

In general my response to triggers that I feel as betrayalor rejection is to run away often literally. Failing that, then becoming distant, dismissive.

Anyway, I'm looking for resouces for people who's reaction to trauma has been to turn inward, become isolated, over regulated emotionally, unable/unwilling to form connections to other people.