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12:06am November 25, 2013

madeofpatterns:

warlocksexalways said: What is ‘being driven crazy’? Do you mean like when being abused makes you think and feel things you normally wouldn’t?

That’s one form. Also things like this:

  • Pushing yourself so far past your limits that you can’t think straight in a very long-term way
  • Having everyone around you pervasively fail to actually communicate with you, to the point that you get confused about what communication is
  • other stuff too but can’t think off offhand

I also use it for something much less long-term, for things that make me agitated and discombobulated, but I doubt that’s what you’re after.

For long-term things…

There’s the thing where you are put into situations that completely change you on a certain level, they mess with your sense of reality, they change your emotional responses, they twist everything around, they break certain things to pieces, and they rearrange you until you barely know what’s up anymore.

The ‘agitated and discombobulated’ thing is just the barest mildest echo of that.  The more serious version is horrific.  It doesn’t have to be specifically abuse, it can be all kinds of things.