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sister said:....The more I work on this in therapy the more I realize how disconnected I have been for a long time and how creative my mind is at protecting me from feeling pain. The challenge now is to feel without judgement and without dissociating. Yikes, I'm not sure i want to do that but believe it's necessary for my healing.....

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">yep. takes some courage to face the work when one realizes they've spent most of life checked out. certainly was a wake up call in this world when work began on the extreme degreee of dissociation employed for survival.

dismantling the degrees have been part of the plan created by therapist and self. or at least becoming aware and accepting before dismantling....something like that.