11-29-21
“I loose touch with reality often”
It’s a question on psychological inventories, the intake form, the one they ask me to retake each new therapist’s appointment.
I mark it high.
It scares me. This slipping away. This unmooring from the physical world around me. In favor of my ever deep internal world.
But why is this – this nebulous emotional world – not reality as well? Am I dreaming without my knowllege or consent? Maybe the real problem, the real pathology, is that I let others define my reality, draw these subjective lines for me.
“I often let others define my reality for me”
Ask me that question. Be concerned if I mark it high.
Nihilistic Porcupine 