Jeremy Traum for the Boston Globe Ideas | Sarah Gailey Dissociation is scary. Dissociation is safety.

But my brain, my memory it’s not here right now, not really. I’m not really here at all. I’m partitioned, behind frosted glass, somewhere else where I can’t feel my hands or my face. I’m wrapped in tissue paper and cotton wool and placed into a foam-lined crate. I’m not here. Dissociation is scary. Dissociation is safety.