Dissociation is the mind's method of managing what can't be directly processed. You're there, technically. The conversation is happening, the day is moving, your body is performing the expected functions. And underneath it, something is watching from a slight distance — detached, observing, not quite in the driver's seat.

Anonymous thoughts about dissociation posted here are from people who know this feeling and rarely have language for it. The honest account of being in your life from the outside.