Forgetting Can be Healthy: Dissociation Is Not Always a Mental Illness

Antonieta Contreras
8 min readSep 22, 2020

Even when it could be a symptom, it could also become a skill

Antonieta Contreras, LCSW-R, CCTP-II, BCN

The same way that newspapers, media, and the entertainment industries exploit “bad news” or expose the worst of people and society, so too does the medical model of psychology…

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Antonieta Contreras

Antonieta is a psychotherapist certified in Trauma Studies, Human sexuality, Neurofeedback, Contemplative psych… She is passionate about facilitating healing.