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AV - Avoidance of Traumatic Reminders (eg Dissociation) / Re: Confusion about dissociation
« on: January 19, 2016, 06:12:57 PM »
From everything I've been reading about disassociation, it can be a form of the learned protective behaviour of escaping from the here and now. "Busy Making" to keep the mind occupied, a form of flight response. If you are taking up room in your brain with nothingness like "vegging" in front of the TV or gaming or other forms of mindless tasks, it is allowing you to "not" have to deal with feeling the inner emotions of pain, abandonment, anger, fear, sadness, etc. I've been doing it most of my adult life unfortunately. It is a very hard habit to break. This is what I understand it to be unless it is a complete disassociation that creates another person to deal with those emotions.... Not sure if I said this in the right way. <3