We may be involved in an abusive intimate relationship and be aware of being locked into destructive patterns but feel too fragile and powerless to move on. Or in leaving or having left this relationship, we might feel as if something would or is left behind with our partner. Another sign of soul loss can be a gap in memory to avoid pain. The soul may also leave a child who does not feel loved, or who feels abandoned, by his or her parents. Being sickly as a child or suffering serious or chronic illness can often indicate this soul loss.
Chronic depression is another symptom of soul loss.
A soul might leave the body to survive physical or sexual abuse. In each of these cases, the traumatized person literary escapes to survive the ordeal. Shock is the word usually used to describe this condition. Shock is a normal reaction in itself and no cause for alarm. But often, for reasons we don't fully understand, the part of the self that left fails to return and that is a predicament.