Overcoming Shock. Diane Zimberoff

memories somatically, often pre-verbally, and experiences the memories of traumas as personal to itself. The emotional personality presents with the identity of a child, the arrested-development inner child stuck in time at the point of the original traumatizing event(s). The traumatized individual’s apparently normal part of the personality does not experience memories of traumas as personal, or may have no access to them at all. The apparently normal personality, dissociated from her body and her emotions, presents as, for example, the precocious caregiver, willing to tolerate age-inappropriate responsibilities. She is condemned to live life “on the surface of consciousness.”