{"author":"Noel Hunter","author_id":"Noel+Hunter","total_quotes":1,"quotes":[{"text":"Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suffocate; it is automatic speech and action without awareness or control; it is looking at the world and blinking to try to remove the blurry fog; it is hearing and seeing the immediate world and simultaneously feeling very far away; it is raw fear; it is unfamiliarity in familiar places; it is possession; it is being haunted everyday by unknown monsters that can be felt but not seen (at least not by others); it is looking in the mirror and not knowing who is looking back; it is fantasy and imagination; and, above all else, it is survival. Dissociation is all of these things and none of them at once.","author":"Noel Hunter","tags":["depression","dissociated","dissociation","dissociative disorder","dissociative symptoms","mental-health","numbness"],"id":105377,"author_id":"Noel+Hunter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1,"pages":1}}