Chronically traumatised victims often feel a sense of detachment from the self, and experience internal states and reality in an unreal or distorted way.

长期受创伤的受害者经常以不真实、扭曲的方式，感觉到脱离自我，只感受自己内心的经历和现实。

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While others become immersed in self-pity or in thoughts about failure and missed opportunities, the person who possesses detachment will be working on a new venture or trying a different approach.

当其他人老是专注于自我遗憾或者满脑子总想着失败和错失的机会时，拥有超然内心状态的人已经在进行一次新的冒险或者尝试不同的方式了。

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Self Mastery is embodied in periods of planned detachment. It is that period in which impeccability is crystallized.

自主体现在有计划的分离时期，因为在这个时期无罪成形了。

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Irony today is thus a mixture of self-detachment and self-absorption: an unwillingness to take a stand and an eagerness to see the strange workings of fate in mere thwarted desire.

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Is this self-consciousness this creates simply a form of detachment, and if so, why do we need to feel so detached?

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The shooter was assigned to a small Special Operations Forces detachment working on so-called village-stability operations, a plan to raise local self-defense forces to protect Afghan villagers from the Taliban, a military official said.

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