It’s pretty rough having to walk every day into an emotionally-draining job filled with challenges and tragedies while also having to plan your future in the face of even larger, nationwide tragedies, but there’s a trick to getting through it all: dissociating
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Come here to let it dissipate whenever you need to.
(via this paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2679507/, via Thomas Metzinger's "Being No One")
We discussed this with teams in the field:
Dissociation allows you to do accomplish something rational in an irrational situation
It can also kill you due to lack of situational awareness
Stay strong.