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Dissociation

Dissociation

To everyone that has taken time to read, support and reply to my first post I appreciate you all from the bottom of my heart.

I have read each reply and thought I would explain my situation a little more, I can't really go into depth with it because my trauma stems from when I was a child right up until adulthood and it would take me hours and hours to type.

I honestly don't know where to start, but I have educated myself over the few years about mental health which unfortunately a lot of people don't do. When I got diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder it honestly shattered my heart because I have to live with this for the rest of my life. I always tell myself and people around me that everything happens for a reason and sometimes the reason is the most horrible reason, but it still happens and there is nothing that you can do to change that. I have been researching more and more about dissociation and derealisation and seem to not get far, I feel this all day everyday, its draining, embarrassing and just life sucking. If anyone else feels like this please let me know, I would like to see how people deal when feeling this way, and how it affects you. When I tell people what it feels like is, It's like one side of my brain knows what I'm doing, where I am, and that I am alive and okay. And the other side of my brain is scared, doesn't know where I am, doesn't know what I'm doing, feeling like I'm not real, that nothing is real and to get back home because I start to hyperventilate.

I can say though that I haven't gone back to step one, when I was first going through this I could not calm myself down and it got to the point where the ambulance were called twice in one week. That was around 3/4 years ago now. I know my breathing tactics and grounding, and while I'm out if I get that anxious I know I need to stay there and breathe through it so I don't get scared to go back to that place in the future. A big thing as well that I struggle with even when with friends, partner or my family members is places like the supermarket, bunnings, Kmart or big places because I feel like I'm stuck and I cannot move and go into that panic, I'm just wondering if anyone has any answers to why I feel like that. I have also tried to get as much medical help as I can and I am finally getting people to listen to me and my trauma and my story after a lifetime of being pushed to the side. I am highly medicated and have been since I was a teenager, I have been on all sorts of medications. These medications that I'm on now seem to work but I do shake a lot in my hands and legs when I lay down and the side affects of them all cause drowsiness.

If anyone has anymore questions feel free to ask

Thankyou again for anyone whom reads this

Dont forget that you are loved ❤️

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Hi @Just I'm not so great. Don't know exactly for you but I know sometimes that's happened to me where I've left dissociated and only a few times this has been unsafe. I told my therapist about it, about winding up somewhere unsafe or lost/confused, and now she has a rule she doesn't end unless I'm present. She usually makes me tell her where the car is, where I am, where I'm going after. That kind of thing. Maybe if you feel it could be risky let your doctor know

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@destructive so sorry to hear it's been hard for you. Yes, your advice sounds spot on . Will do. Thanks. I'm here for you. Just so you don't feel isolated. Don't know what else I can say! Except I feel your pain. If it's true that when you share you half the worry, pain what ever it is. I hope I have helped tightened YOUR load. 🍀

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@destructive lightened your load. Lol not what I wrote before (tightened your load). Spelling mistakes Also if not troubling you to much. I had a thought, Do you think people dissociate more than usual for them when they are getting close to solving something difficult ' in their life' ( e.g a repressed memory). From @Just

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@Just I don't know. I felt like I've dissociated more since diagnosed but I think that actually could just be now I'm more aware.

Sometimes I struggle to believe the diagnosis even though I know I dissociate. I just feel like asking me to accept it means asking me to say horrible things have happened and either that's not true or of it is that's too awful to think of. It's so hard.

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@destructive so happy to hear from you. I've been sad lately. But reading what you wrote I so 👍 agree. I feel I also have to face what happened. And have obviously to me, been working my whole life to' not' remember. I also find it very hard to trust. That was said with a big outward.breath. I might just count that as another ( break through). To acknowledge I don't TRUST. And it feels like all my life I've worked twice.as hard as everyone else to keep it together. To look " normal". Because I have to hide part of me.

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Aww @destructive Hope your ok. Have noticed you haven't been on lately. @destructive from @Just

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Lightened your load. Sorry spelling mistake. @Just

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Have recently found a book by Janina Fisher, (Healing the Fragmented Selves of trauma Survivors). Thought I would share. @destructive @destructive

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Hi @destructive @destructive Do U have any good learning books for dissociation. Or complex PTSD? One you found were useful? Hope your ok. And no worries if you don't. @Just

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Hi @Just that is hard to answer because my brain isn't good at letting me remember them 🤦 I have just listened to Dissociation Made Simple and a while back read Coping With Trauma Related Dissociation. I can't remember what I thought of it but it's pretty practical.. has activities a things. Both were recommended by my therapist

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