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Originally Posted by tinyrabbit
Thanks for your replies. The thing is, sometimes I know I'm dissociating, like when sometimes I'll feel like I've gone into my head and stopped feeling my body, then I go back into my body again. I know I do dissociate in various ways. But I didn't have any awareness of doing so. Just had no feelings.
It's not normal to just have no feelings though is it?
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Sometimes we don't know when we are dissociating, like when we suddenly arrive at our destination without a clear memory of the last bit of the drive there. Or we might not know when it begins, like a daydream.
I think it would be more unusual to be a kid and having all that anger and scariness going on all around and not feeling frightened. But if the adults attention was not available, there would be no one to go to with the fear, so dissociating becomes a way of self-soothing, as best as can be had under the circumstances.
