Since it seems a few on the board have dealt with traumas, I was wondering if any have issues with dissociation and/or derealization. Where you feel your mind's disconnected from your body, or where you are physically distanced from your body.
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I don't know if it actually is dissociation/derealisation since psychiatrists and that are taking too ****ing long to actually speak with me properly (go figure!), but since about...January ish, I've developed a defence mechanism that was triggered by extreme stress. Basically, my emotions go completely, both good and bad, my vision blurs, and my personality changes totally.
So yeah, the possibility of dissociation/derealisation has been mentioned a fair bit to me already
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I've had the feeling that my mind is off somewhere, away from my body. Like I'm in the clouds or something. That was during extreme depression for me. I guess it was my body or psyche's way of coping. I wasn't taking in stuff, I had no emotions.
Hello, I just found this site from my parents. I believe I know what you're talking about. I'm not sure if it's an actual symptom that can be diagnosed or treated, in my case, but I do feel disassociated with my body. Throughout the day I wonder why I was given this body and why I couldn't just have one that doesn't cause so much grief. I have suffered with depression since approximately age 12, officially diagnosed around age 16 or 17. I'm now 20 and have tried zoloft, generic, wellbutrin, and lexapro. Currently I'm on 20mg of lexapro, but it hasn't helped me accept my body as mine. Is this what you're referring to?
Just a follow-up. What all of you are describing is some level of dissociation, etc... There are many levels and types of dissocation. Have you seen therapist's to work on what is causing this response in you? From what each of you has described, this is most likely due to past/present trauma. Please know that you don't always remember trauma from the past - I don't remember most of mine. When stress comes on again or similar situations are taking place, I return to that particular learned habit of self-protection though.
If you need more information, please do a Google search on the topics: trauma, PTSD and abuse, and see what you find. You are going to need help with this so I urge you to speak with your healthcare and mental healthcare providers, and get the support you need.
YES. Not been diagnosed with anything, but I 'switch off' fairly frequently and have done so on and off (haha! No pun intended!) since I was fifteen.
It happens at times of stress, when I'm just tired, when my blood sugar level is low... no single cause. My mind just goes somewhere else. Never very far away, but I have had conversations with people when it's happened before. For instance, I once agreed to go to the shops and buy toilet rolls. A bit later on, dad asked me why I hadn't been to the shops and I had no idea what he was talking about. No recollection whatsoever of having agreed to do so.
It doesn't trouble me an awful lot, because it's never happened at work. It's always when I'm in a safe environment and around my family. But if it started to happen at other times I would begin to be concerned.
Cherry xx
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Interesting, since my anxiety/panic disorder has gotten worse I've found myself feeling like I am not really "here". I feel like I am looking at everything through glass or something, where I'm there but not actually there. It has gotten to the point where I don't even feel like myself anymore...everything feels different and strange. I hate it because I want to feel like myself again. I think this is a coping mechanism for myself because my anxiety has gotten so bad I can't even live a normal life right now.
I'm like Cherry though, mine mostly happens when I am in my 'safe place' like at home or when I have more time to think.
Mel
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Dissociation? 
I just registered... 
