Is Your Body a Slave to Your Mind?

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Dissociation, or what is also referred to as escapism, is a coping mechanism. Usually we think of it in the most obvious forms, like alcohol and drugs, things that actually numb your physical body out. But in a sense, you are not escaping, you just numb the body and take your mind out. If there was a house called ‘here and now’, both body and mind are still at home, it is just they have been both tied up and blindfolded.