A Turn Away From Dissociation: The Association Thread

[Survivor3]

Slime

 

[Dave Ryan]

Ghostbusters

 

[8888]

Entertaining

 

[StarChild]

Stand up comedies

 

[Rose White]

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

music

 

[Dave Ryan]

Grammy

 

[StarChild]

Achievement

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

unlocked

 

[Applecore]

unlocked

Funnily enough the first thing that came to mind was 'handcuffs', and I'm not even kinky, nor have I ever been arrested.

Am a bit slow so early this morning, can you help me see the connection between 'achievement' and 'unlocked' ? Because it really made me think about PTSD solutions that might be good for all of us.

Personal testimony indulgence here (trait narcissism perhaps): finding the two words really interesting because I was a terrible schoolboy, possibly the lowest grades in the school which rewards memory recall and mental organization. Despite engagement and hard work I failed exams and was repeatedly across years called lazy and stupid. This was back in the days when people didn't understand PTSD and intrusive thoughts made it impossible to focus the mind in exams.

Then I thrived at university (after the kind admissions guy waived grade requirements at interview after hearing about my family troubles messing with my concentration - those were the days). Uni was more about autonomous thought, and whatever connections and observations came out of one's head, in one's own time. Was this a process of 'unlocking' or even 'achievement' ?

Or was it not really achievement in that school hadn't been a failure in the first place? Was it rather a kind of evolutionary 'fit' of this weird creature finding the right habitat?

Because personally my hunch had been that PTSD can be vastly improved my changing habitat: from city to nature or vice versa, changing jobs, relationships, country, bad habits to good ones, thinking habits like complaining to gratitude etc. And maybe this is indeed a kind of unlocking?

Thank you DGF for the cool connection.

Anyway, 'handcuffs'...

 

[Rose White]

Fuzzy

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

wuzzy? is that a word?