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MuneeraKhair's avatar

Disassociation: that's when I disconnect from reality and become a balloon head, floating about, wondering where reality went. Sometimes I don't come down for days but that's okay, eventually I need a snack. You know, munchies...but yes, let Ms. Metz please sing an intro song for you and Jesus! That would be awesome!

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Colleen's avatar

LOVED this!!!! Humans at their BEST conversing & sharing ❤️❤️❤️

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Laura 👗's avatar

Love her! Every episode of that show made me cry. 🤗

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Guadalupe Marroquin's avatar

Wonderfull!!!

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Valerie Starr's avatar

Hey, God and Jesus, I'm a licensed therapist. Dissociation is a trauma response in which a person loses touch with their surroundings. It's an altered state of consciousness, and the person who dissociates usually has no memory of that period of time.

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God's avatar

Thanks for the official definition. I think people are using it in a slang kind of way these days, given that reading the news provides constant trauma. I also don't remember these recordings very well. But there has to be a better word for that, though.

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Valerie Starr's avatar

I guess we can call the common way of expressing it could be tuned out.

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Valerie Cartwright's avatar

My mother as a child and young adult was not allowed to have her own feelings by her evil mother (evil is attempting to destroy another's soul). The result was a suicide attempt by gun at 29, that left her hemiplegic. She has survived 56 years, but with horrific disability. Moral to the story: encourage the expression of feelings in your children or suffer the consequences.

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P J Johnston's avatar

She's delightful and happy! Loved her in This is Us long ago. Oh and yes I'm tired of the Fascists crap that is going on in our country currently I think it needs to stop! The one that's trying to implement "HIS" and the Heritage Foundations agenda is sloppy at best and yes they are all things that AREN'T in the best interests in our nation now!

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Truth Be Told's avatar

I think I know why kids want to talk about their feelings with someone who’s receptive. Many come from families where they don’t talk about feelings - like Feelings What Are Those?

AND I remember as a kid being told my feelings weren’t accurate ( as in No, you don’t feel that way.) 🙄 Nothing chills talking about feelings like being told they’re not real or true or correct.

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Nancy's avatar

When You talk about the insanity of humanity, it makes me wonder: did You create other sentients out there in our universe that are more sane, or does insanity come with sentience? :-/

Also: since the Kid is a carpenter, He could make you a bath table thing! :D

Music: I love everything but Muzak (oy...) and "gangsta rap" (though I do like hip-hop). :)

L.A.: distance is not measured in miles, but in time, which is relative depending on many factors.

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