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Daph
Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
In plain language, dissociation is what creates safety and ultimately pain relief in the moment of need. Trauma deeply impacts a person’s psyche, extreme limits are pushed, and extreme reactions become necessary.
Jamie Marich • Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life
“Manchild” is a kiss-off about a stupid man. In it, she patronizes her man by talking like a caveman, asking, “Why so sexy if so dumb?” It’s been theorized that the song is about Carpenter’s public ex, movie star Barry Keoghan. Are there any indications Man’s Best Friend is about Keoghan? Well, he does remind some people of Target’s famous dog masc... See more
Sabrina Carpenter Fetches Man’s Best Friend
absence of any substantive or credible promises of a better future.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
(She) was enthusiastically heterosexual.
—Eccentric Lives, The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries.
The term “dissociation” was coined by Pierre Janet in 1889 in the book-length scientific study L’automisme psychologique. For Janet, “dissociation” defined how the memory of trauma split itself off from the rest of the self, where it could not be internalized or assimilated.
Jayson Greene • The Rise of Dissociation Music
Heterosexuality makes me sick sometimes. Are these really the options?
Jackie Ess • Darryl
Dissociation is a way of fleeing without leaving the room.
Staci Haines • The Politics of Trauma
We might ‘dissociate’ and do the opposite: we check out, numb ourselves, engage in escapism, or fixate harder on connecting with others. In a state of dissociation, it is hard to advocate for our needs, our boundaries, and our limits. In addition, many of us have excellent auto-pilot functions and masking skills for when we dissociate, which can so... See more