Dissociating can be even just daydreaming at work on the highway or in class. Its simply NOT being in your current reality.. mentally being elsewhere.
We all dissociate sometimes. Doing it isnt a disordered behavior.
Its common.
However, some people do it TOO much, and have a hard time controlling it.
Some people dissociate from one aspect of their life only.
Some dissociate and go into an alternate reality.
Most of the time, dissociation has nothing to do with psychosis, which is a full break from reality.
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