User:Thijshijsijsjss/Human Parser/About Dissociation

Necessary.
This annotation is meant to give a (my) 'definition' of dissociation, or a clear illustration of it. (might be important to note I am not necessarily referring to the DSM5 def nor to the associated labels) Can be short? Can be long?
I am unsure about the form of this annotation. Below is just some meta writing so that the second reader at least has the important definitional info!

This is a personal account, not meant to exhaust the wide range of experiences that are captured by the term in psychological, psychiatrical, bussiness, colloquial or ...other... settings. In particular, I am not referring	strictly to the term as understood in psychology, nor to any of the five 'dissociative disorders' specified by the DSM-5.

For me, dissociaction is the experience of
	an (involuntary) disruption and distancing in your sense of identity, 
	a disconnect between your thoughts, feelings, actions and self-perception,
	a mismatch between how you experience the world, and how the world experiences you
	the detachment that comes from that, 
	the doubt and misunderstanding and discomfort
	...
	the inescapable loudness of the questions: 
	who am I?

New attempt. Leaving the above entry there for now.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) describes dissociation in the following way:
Dissociative symptoms are experienced as a) unbidden intrusions into awareness and behavior, with accompanying losses of continuity in subjective experience (...) and / or b) inability to access information or to control mental functions that normally are readily amenable to access or control (...).
This thesis is not meant to exhaust the wide range of experiences that are captured by the term 'dissociation' in psychological, psychiatrical, bussiness, or colloquial settings. Nor is it meant to restrict its meaning to those situational definitions. This is a personal account, meant to rebel against the manual dictating the lines between which a person is allowed to feel, the manual dictating the rules with which a person is meant to live, and the manual dictating the methods through which a person is invited to understand.
Here are some more ways to understand 'dissociation':
Dissociation 
	is an (involuntary) disruption and distancing in your sense of identity, 
	a disconnect between your thoughts, feelings, actions and self-perception,
	a mismatch between how you experience the world, and how the world experiences you.
Dissociation
	is your mother telling you how happy you look lately, when you don't feel happy at all.
	It is not being able to tell her how you actually feel and sometimes trying to be the person she thinks she sees.
	It is looking in the mirror and seeing that person and noticing how happy they look and wishing you were them.
Dissociation is
	the detachment, 
	the doubt and misunderstanding and discomfort,
	the inescapable loudness of the question: 
	who am I?


References
American Psychiatric Association (2013) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. 5th edn. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing.