Mental dissociation and checking out from reality

Dissociation is the psychological response to traumatic stress, but also the separation of oneself from thoughts, feelings, memories, and surroundings.

Mental dissociation is increasingly used by us humans in order to cope with something incompatible and inconsistent with how we identify with ourselves, how we perceive ourselves, or how we would like to become.

We are aware that a simple experience such as a fast food meal is overall damaging for our health, for our life, but also for the life of other creatures and the environment. As a simple meal often comes either in a plastic bag, container, with soda being carried in a cup with a plastic straw. Now our mind is using mental trickery to dissociate ourselves from the negative consequences of our actions. We do need to know how the meat was made. We simply want to eat it.

We have to deal with more discrete bits of input than ever before.

And we pull up additional veils of dissociative mechanisms so that we can deal with the bits.

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