{"id":91610,"date":"2023-07-09T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T02:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91610"},"modified":"2023-07-09T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T02:10:17","slug":"depersonalizing-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/07\/09\/depersonalizing-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Depersonalizing Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s talk for a moment about mental illness \u2013 which is no joking matter.&nbsp; And I know this because I, your humble scribe, have been touched by mental disorders.&nbsp; Never forget \u2013 everyone has something.&nbsp; Acknowledging it is the first step.&nbsp; And yet, I was still taken aback when <strong>Bowen Yang <\/strong>admitted that he is suffering from \u201cbad bouts of depersonalization\u201d.&nbsp; I thought that was when you ask a jeweler to erase an engraving before you re-gift!&nbsp; But here is how the <em>Mayo Clinic <\/em>defines depersonalization disorder: \u201cWhen you persistently or repeatedly have the feeling that you\u2019re observing yourself from outside your body or you have a sense that things around you aren\u2019t real.\u201d&nbsp; How does that apply to you?&nbsp; Imagine you get to have sex with someone out of your league and you can\u2019t believe it\u2019s happening.&nbsp; Or perhaps see yourself having sex in an overhead mirror.&nbsp; That\u2019s depersonalization.&nbsp; Admittedly, it\u2019s not always quite so titillating.&nbsp; But the point is, Bowen is&nbsp;getting help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s talk for a moment about mental illness \u2013 which is no joking matter.&nbsp; And I know this because I, your humble scribe, have been touched by mental disorders.&nbsp; Never forget \u2013 everyone has something.&nbsp; Acknowledging it is the first step.&nbsp; And yet, I was still taken aback when Bowen Yang admitted that he is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91611,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91610\/revisions\/91611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}