

Actually that’s why we use ketamine as a painkiller. Dissociating is a powerful tool for both ignoring physical and psychological pain. When it comes to psychological harm, like anxiety from a casual conversation, then that conversation can’t really harm you if you’re precluding the anxiety from existing in the first place. That’s why it’s a coping mechanism. It’s just a destructive one in the long term.
I’m a nurse so the medical community.