Thank you all! I think I’ve started dissociating (not so much in therapy, but in real life) though I don’t know much about it beyond what I’ve read. Sometimes things go really foggy and I struggle to stay focused on anything in particular. It happens when I drive too, though not to the same extent as I’m able to maintain enough presence of mind not to do anything stupid. I’m not sure where I go when I get like this, I only know that I’m not fully entrenched into the present.

I’m also not entirely sure what triggers it. Does sudden (ish) dissociation always have a clear cause? Or can bad things build up so much that your mind feels the need to protect itself?