It sounds like you have gone to school for that knowledge. The opposeing forces creating a mess in people is reasonable to see as true. The reality, from my experience, was more than that. I mean I was being pulled in, at least, two different directions. One was toward the military, a lot of my friends were devoutly military. The other was spiritualism, because I had friends who had embraced spiritualism. Like I said, these are only two, but there were other, smaller forces as well.

So I was pressured to choose; pro-military for some friends or pro-spiritualism for other friends. Truth was; I couldn't choose because I saw the good in both. That made me undesireable to both groups. I became undesirable, I couldn't, "walk the walk, and talk the talk" anymore. I wasn't willing to demonize either.

Therefore, I needed to confront some big problems, alone. At the same time, I needed to find food and shelter and maintain health. So, to diassociate seems reasonable as a result of that state of mind.

Did I dissasociate though. Not really. I gave in to superstician(sp), or magical thinking and loose associations, but I knew enough to maintain work and could get by well enough. I was rejected by my birth family. That broke my heart.

I didn't have an interest in being a part of the productive world anymore. It was meaningless for me.

Doctors would interview me. In that state of mind, at that time, I was wounded, nearly fatally. I threw half truths and much of nothing at this highly paid and distant person. I became diagnosed and seperated from, well, humanity. These highly paid workers assured the outside world that they would heal me. They lied. My love for, pretty much everything, died.

Still, I moved forward. I met a woman who found me desirable and we formed a union. I nurtured this union. I have built a life around this union
Did the highly paid workers help this union last? No. They discouraged it. I ignored their concerns.

I can live in the productive world now.

OUr culture is sick. I paid a price for the screw ups of others.

That is my view.