eli5 what is disassociating? Tried looking online but I don’t understand.
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I pretty much dissociated my entire childhood it seems. There are good moments I remember, but looking back, I was struggling in school because I would dissociate during lessons. If we had been learning a lesson all week, on day 5 when the test would come it was like I was seeing the material for the first time. Taking actual tests? It was like an hour where I was living under water almost. It’s hard to explain. I still do it to this day when I’m in a learning setting and I’m 26. I have about 45 mins of focus in me while someone is teaching, after that I am gone. Even when I go to comedy shows (just saw Adam Sandler) and I get about an hour in and I get the under water feeling. When a super funny joke makes everyone laugh I snap back into my body. For a while I didn’t know if I was falling asleep but now when I put the pieces together it’s actually dissociation. I had a very chaotic childhood with constant night terrors so I was exhausted all the time and had a layer of fear/anxiety that never went away all day.
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