"No-I" NonDualism is a Defense Mechanism
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:40 am
The awareness of no-I, no-Me, no-whatever arise in various people due to the various degrees of depersonalization.
The effects of depersonalization below is similar to what DAM and her likes are claiming.The “Airbag” of Depersonalization: Shield or Disorder?
Infamous as one of the most painful disorders, depersonalization is also a safeguard, protecting from a danger. The emergence of depersonalization at the edge of stress can be compared with the explosion of an airbag at the edge of a car crash. The fog of unreality shields from psychological traumas like an exploded airbag protects from physical injuries. The fog of unreality falls as a barrier between person and trauma as if virtually removing this person from a threatening situation.
This defensive function of depersonalization is most evident in trauma, acute anxiety and panic attacks. When the level of panic reaches a certain threshold, depersonalization comes as a savior; continuing the comparison above – like a threshold of mechanical shock triggers the explosion of an airbag. Depersonalization appears as a kind of “airbag” built-in the human psychological structure to be employed in the threatening situations of stress, panic or trauma.
Depersonalization is a very complex defense system that requires a high level of human mental organization.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... r-disorder
There are tons of material on Depersonalization as a Defense Mechanism, here are some;Depersonalization represents a third way of coping that allows a person to escape or alleviate the traumatic situation. The uniqueness of this sort of escape is that it develops in the subjective world of the person psyche.
Experience of depersonalization removes the person from trauma psychically and subjectively while remaining in it physically and objectively. Depersonalization and derealization create subjective feeling of unreality - “I am not myself,” “I feel detached” and “the world is not real.”
This feeling of “detachment from the world” provides the detachment from trauma, anxiety or panic, alleviating emotional and psychological threat.
People with depersonalization describe the experience of the gap, screen or wall between person and world, often experienced together with estrangement from their own feelings, including extremely traumatic panic and fear.
Thus, the “cotton of depersonalization” saves from the trauma of emotional or psychological distress, but also at the same time creates the trauma of feeling unreal.
Diminishing the pain of trauma, the cocoon of depersonalization keeps a person trapped “inside unreality.”
Depersonalization can be a protective mechanism but having the disorder can have life altering consequences.
This disorder occurs most commonly from the teen years and into middle adulthood.
It is usually not diagnosed in the very young or very old.
It is more prominent in those who have witnessed or sustained some form of trauma.
http://www.psy-ed.com/wpblog/mental-dis ... -disorder/
Depersonalization as a defense mechanism in survivors of trauma
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02093366
Depersonalization as a Defense Mechanism
Dorian Feigenbaum
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... ode=upaq20