eli5 what is disassociating? Tried looking online but I don’t understand.
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If you are looking at TikTok videos with people disassociating, that is fake. Disassociative identity disorder (DID) is devastating and there isn’t anyone online doing cutesy videos where they will themselves into other personalities or nonsense like that.
If you are talking about disassociation in the casual sense, that would be considered closer to a meditative state that is induced through relaxation and sensory depravation where one can feel separated from themselves and become unaware of the physical body. Think of your lower back, you are always aware of where it is and can touch it, being disassociated would be not being aware of your lower back, or anything about your physical form at all. Noises stop making sense and are just sounds in the background.
During trauma, many people disassociate from the situation and just go into their own world and become detached from the events occurring around them. This is considered much more common than DID and is much closer to the meditative state I describe earlier, but it does not require meditation to enter, just a mental retreat into a place that is away from the current situation.
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