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Default Sep 17, 2019 at 09:07 AM
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and how do you know if you're dissociating?
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Default Sep 17, 2019 at 09:18 AM
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I suffered from what they called "bipolar fugue state" which my therapist says was a way of dissacociation. At the time i had no idea I was in one and didnt remember anything about it. I know I put my family through hell with it though. It happened when I was non-med compliant.

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Default Sep 17, 2019 at 09:24 AM
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Dissociation is usually not "known" in the moment (eg: for me I learned of my dissociation by being 'reminded' of things I did that I have no recollection of---and most seemed to be pretty 'ordinary' things. As one T said "It doesn't mean you aren't functioning just fine in the situation"----though it can cause confusion/misunderstandings at times. And sometimes the behavior described does not sound like me at all---(I am thinking of an incident documented by one counselor and the documentation being shown to me by another....)
The other kind of experience I had felt weirdly (in hindsight) normal---I find my "self" watching me from the ceiling corner of a room, looking down, observing, sometimes wondering why 'she' or 'i' (changes) am doing what I am doing, again it may not seem a particularly stressful moment in hindsight.
In the meantime, I had a family, a career and made it into senior-hood...I learned there are many things other people don't see you feeling even if it feels obviously 'out there' for all to see....life really is a funny duck.

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Default Sep 17, 2019 at 09:44 AM
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and how do you know if you're dissociating?
title question......its different for everyone
post question..........its something that you just know.

dissociating is about feelings. feeling numb, feeling spaced out, feeling like you are spaced out and not because of medical conditions, medications drugs or alcohol.

you know how when someone says something that makes you feel angry you just know you feel angry. you just know you are feeling angry

dissociation is like that, something happens to make you have certain feelings and feel a certain way. you just know when you are feeling nothing, you know when you are feeling spaced out, you know when you are feeling like the world is passing you by with out you...its all about feelings,

no one can tell you how dissociation feels for you, or me or anyone else. only you can do that for yourself.

that said dissociation happens in a way that most times its completely normal and other times its so bad someone can lose touch with reality and end up in the hospital until they are no longer out of touch with reality.

its like this-

normal dissociation ......>
a little too much dissociation.....>
lots of dissociation .........>
so much dissociation on the severity scales that its a dissociation disorder............>
even more dissociation that its another dissociation disorder complete with different problems .............>
So much dissociation that a person has times when they are in altered states of mind ...............>
extreme dissociation to the point where they are no longer in touch with reality because they are living in altered states of mind 24/7 so they need to be hospitalized until some of their altered states of mind can be reintegrated and they are back in touch with reality again.

only your own doctors can tell you whether you are dissociating and how severely, they can give you tests to find out all that you need to know.
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