Sheepdog Tip of the Day, During Combat tip 49
During high-threat situations you may experience a strange sense of detachment, as if the event were a dream, or you were looking at yourself from outside your body. You may go from that "oh-shit" moment with an intense awareness of fear, to feeling almost nothing as you focus only on staying alive. ... The initial conclusions from the 2001 stress studies of Green Berets, conducted by Morgan and Hazlett indicate that dissociation may be associated with less effective performance in combat and a predisposition to PTSD after combat.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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