deliberately avoid thinking about painful things as they occur so that it doesn't get into your head? So you avoid being in the present as things happen. I'm not talking about thinking about past things. It makes them easy to forget later, too.
But it might make a big memory hole in your mind.
I'm getting too good at this, it kind of creeps me out. There was a period of time when I was permanently dazed out and fucked up, but I snapped out of that. And got back to reality.
These days, it's not a permanent state like that, but I avoid thinking/experiencing bad things so automatically that it doesn't take much for me to avoid living in the present and that can't be healthy. I mean, just intellectually, it looks wrong.
Anyway, discuss. Or tell me to see a psychiatrist, whatever.
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