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“This alternate reality here I'm not quite in my body, not quite in my mind, either--it's this place where all I do is think about one thing and one thing only.”

Book:The Way I Used to Be

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“The wait went on, the seconds ticking away in a tangle of emotions, desperate hope giving way to pitiless anguish. The certainty of being safe from misfortune shatters inexorably, like a splinter being driven into your soul, leaving behind fissures that you try to repair because this sort of thing only happens to other people . . . . And words and pictures come to mind and linger, cruel, unbearable. You close your eyes so as not to see, not to feel, not to think. Pathetic attempts to escape disaster by sheer force of will.”

Trauma Disassociation

Book:Mothers' Instinct

Source: Mothers' Instinct

“The more we try to disassociate from our shame, relying solely on our own reasoning and will power in an attempt to get some emotional relief, the stronger the hold shame has over us. Our shame-based behaviour will find ways to reveal itself if we remain in denial about our pain. Shame can be very subtle and often operates at a subconscious level of awareness. However, when we accept we are carrying unresolved shame, we can heal and make peace with ourselves.”

Shame Guilt Addiction Recovery Self Care Codependency Christopher Dines Disassociation Super Self Care

Book:Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles

Source: Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles

“All prisoners need exercise, even dead ones.”

Death Exercise Prisoners Disassociation

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“One year passes, another one comes and the life I had thought was interrupted - its present unconnected to its past - weaves its threads together independently of me. It endures in the vast expanse of time and I pay no attention.”

Time Time Passing Past And Present Disassociation

Book:Wild Mulberries

Source: Wild Mulberries

“I was that servant girl again, so distant now that her return struck me with despondence and torn familiarity.”

Self Reflection Servitude Despondent Disassociation Past Self

Book:Unity

Source: Unity

“After I've slept many dreams, I go out to the street with my eyes wide open but still with the aura and assurance of my dreams. And I'm astonished by my automatism, which prevents others from really knowing me. For I go through daily life still holding the hand of my astral nursemaid; my steps are in perfect accord with the obscure designs of my sleeping mind. And I walk in the right direction; I don't stagger; I react well; I exist.”

Apathetic Disassociation Perfunctory

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“I don't know what I want or don't want. I've stopped wanting, stopped knowing how to want, stopped knowing the emotions or thoughts by which people generally recognize that they want something or want to want it. I don't know who I am or what I am. Like someone buried under a collapsed wall, I lie under the topped vacuity of the entire universe.”

Disassociation Loss Of Self Nothingness Of Being

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Everything slips away from me. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and all it contains, my personality: it all slips away.”

Disassociation Fleeting Life

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

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