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Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2
Can you intentionally dissociate? That sounds a bit far fetched considering dissociating is a triggered response, as far as I know. Normal dissociation like day dreaming and hiway hypno aren't intentional.
I had to look that up and I came across 'emotional detachment' versus 'dissociation' as an action term based on intent. An unpro explaino:
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I can't. At least I don't think that I can and I certainly don't try. But I came to my variety of the disorder through an unfortunate experience with coercive persuasion, rendered by people with decades of knowledge on how to progressively manipulate a person's susceptibility and willfully invoke dissociative states. Conditions can create an environment in which dissociation can be triggered, and conditions can be created intentionally, and as such I don't personally happen to doubt that a person could invoke their own given a certain combination of knowledge and inclination.
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