HESITATION / PANIC

If you tend to zone out and lose track of time set your phone to buzz, beep or otherwise gently remind you to stay present every ten minutes or so. This is likely to feel irritating, but stick with it for a week and see what life feels like. The uncertain sense of coming and going in life, in and out of the present, is tiring and sometimes shocking. It breaks life up, makes concentration hard and may even get you misdiagnosed as having ADHD. You have been dissociating. It’s time to remain more present in your life. Alienation and hesitation go together with this kind of a problem. But I might also say that dissociation is likely to trouble anybody who’s had the odd shock.