Is something people do who know something is wrong, but can’t name it, and have no idea how to get to it. It concretizes experience. They become real, for a moment, in the process.
Here is the thing: dissociation numbs pain. This is good. But it also numbs pleasure and positive connection. The two come from the same place: heartache and terror; and a healthy connection with life and the emotions and sensations that attend it.
So pain connects people with the place where pain is felt, which is also the place where pleasure is felt. This is confusing to some. You must first REMEMBER that some other place exists before you can hope to live in a happy place which exists as one possibility in that universe.
I get so many people I see walking around, and stopping in bars and drinking. My gut tells me I need to try again my “church”. Something will likely be forthcoming soon.