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Thank you so much Dr. Tracy I really believe this!! I was at a traffic light texting and zoned out the car behind had to hit the horn then I woke up and kept gone on the highway!! Love you peace!!
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I love to dissociate when people around me engage in small talk and petty gossip. I also dissociate when the people I'm talking to are unimaginative, closed minded, have nothing original to bring to to the table while wasting my time. To me dissociation feels like an act of self preservation on the part of my mind.
I disassociate often, and I can say that exercising has helped. Additionally, having my little stress ball keeps me grounded. Mental health is a lifelong journey, and I wish everyone out there peace and kindness. 💛⭐️
i like how you note that mental health is a lifelong journey, because it is, i remember during the start of my anxiety disorder, i thought surely it was the end for me, i was truly convinced that i would eventually go lights out at the intensity and rate of the anxiety, 7-8 panic attacks a day back to back for months, it was easily the worst thing i've experienced in my life. and yet, 5 years later, i'm still right here. i didn't realize this at the time, but, the brain is incredibly resilient, life can thrash you around in the dirt and leave you out to die, but as long as you have the two essentials; a pulse, and a will to proceed and persist, you will not only recover but you'll come out with multiple times the fortitude. you learn a lot of things in the midst of torment, that's what i didn't know at that time.
I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Marks for my podcast. She is a shark 🦈 from page to page in ANY textbook and just an all around joy to talk to. Bucket list line checked! ✅
Many years ago, I was walking home from the grocery store, when all of a sudden, I had no idea where I was. Instead of panicking, I decided to keep walking until something looked familiar. I walked half a block PAST my house, before I realized where I was. That incident was very alarming and it made me wonder of it was a precursor for Alzheimer's. Lately, I have trouble concentrating. I used to absorb info very quickly. Now, I often have to read things more than once or rewind a video, to make sure I didn't miss something, because I often zone out. Sometimes, my thoughts are a like a boat with no oars and no engine.
I relate to the looking around and not knowing how you got there or time lapses. It’s terrifying to look around and wonder what just happened and how you got to a half hour later in a blink of an eye.
I tend to daydream and zone out a lot but not an out of body kind of thing. I do this a lot when I'm in a lot of stress and it seems like something I do to help deal with the stress.
@trippingthelight I was diagnosed with Inattentive ADHD because I would zone out like that in the afternoon, but I don't think that's what it is. It happens mostly after I was stressed/ overwhelmed, by myself in a room, and usually at home. I sat down and 2 hours would just go by. But I didn't feel refreshed afterwards like I would after I slept or meditated. It wasn't daydreaming either- it felt like I hadn't thought anything at all during that time. The best description would be a time jump or a short-circuit.
Thank you Dr Marks for covering this little understood condition. I have c-ptsd with severe dissociative episodes. I 'lose' huge chunks of memory whenever I get overly stressed, as far as I can tell-that time is just gone. People don't 'get' it, and most personal relationships fall apart after they live through it with me a time or two. I am lucky enough to have a good mental health team. But I'm exhausted. And I'm lonely.
i have just commented on a similar thing like this here (guess mine was longer hehe) ..having to watch Dr.Marks here and reading your post help me understand that i may indeed have as well cptsd and i also lost chunks of important memory and i just turned 30 and am kind of freaking out a bit to be honest when i thought i am actually doing well... i believe i need to work on more about mindfulness exercises mentioned. ...just want to ask if you dream most of the times and you actually remember most of it and sometimes wake up being confused if that dream was actually a part of your past memory or not? it's okay if you wont respond am just curious to know if this resonates with others, thank you for sharing and thank you for your time 🙏🏼🤍
@@blessing291Good question! Most of the time I experience very poor sleep and have no dreams at all. But, when I dream, I have basically two types of dreams. 1) 100% lucid-I know I'm asleep and dreaming and I can affect the dream by decision. These are pleasant occasionally, but often I feel more 'real' in those than during waking hours. 2) Night terrors, I guess you would call them? I rarely remember them, but I act them out + if someone wakes me I respond with physical aggression before I know I'm actually awake. Sometimes I worry I'm easily gaslight into believing an event did not happen, or that I remember it incorrectly, or that it did happen and I just don't remember-because so much of my waking life is...not reliable. It's my experience that when you are doing well, you can actually see where you aren't. When you dissociate - you can't see the crisis - because you are not there to see it. It's the aftermath and the lead up when you can really be preset and aware. Mindfulness really helps. I've been seeing a therapist for fast-emdr and that has helped a good bit, it's strange when you start to see how much trauma the body remembers, even when you don't. I find tapping VERY helpful for grounding and always carry some small stones for grounding exercises too. The 5-4-3-2-1 method works well as well. In my personal experience-you need to be able to recognize your warning symptoms, so you can use the grounding exercises before things progress too far. (in my case, depersonalization and derealization are acceptable as long as I don't fully dissociate). Last thought in this already long response: If you have access mental health care - find a provider that works with c-ptsd and dissociation frequently. I've met too many professionals who did not understand what is meant by deperson/derealization and/or how they are different from dissociation. Hope that helps or at least answers some questions.
2022 was a very bad year and i went through alot. Since then, i have never been able to fully associate again. I am in this constant state of anxiety, even when relaxed.. almost like the trauma is in a pressure cooker and i have to keep it closed.. So i disassociate. I'm glad to know it's a thing.
I went through a very traumatic experience and dissociation was how I survived. As a therapist I always saw it as a bad thing but when I went through it, it became clear to me that it was necessary for my survival. I honestly don’t know if I could have gotten through it without the experience. Thanks for sharing this experience with the community.
I don't know how I can stress so badly, about a decision to retire or not retire. I had a few days to decide. I didn't know what to do, I got anxiety, insomnia... started asking everyone what I should do... I was all brain fried!, sleep deprivation... I freaked out and listened to someone and retired. Immediately after, I wish I didn't. I slowly realized what I did.. and had panic attacks, and feel to severe depression. My life ended that day. It's been 8 months,. I'm unable to go outside, I have constant stress and anxiety. I hate myself for losing my job. I want that life I lived before. Now I don't workout, I don't enjoy anything I used to, and the illnesses caused my eyesight to go very bad. My life means nothing to me anymore. I just don't want to exist. ... no one has been able to help... not even myself. I just can't accept
The spectrum of dissociation is fascinating. When I was younger I had a very active imagination and would zone out a lot. That never bothered me at all. Then I developed DR and DP and that was literal hell.
I drew this profile picture in a homeless shelter. Violence around me. Depression around me. Insanity around me. A pandemic around me. Nothing could bother me. I was simply too busy, and too occupied to be homeless and depressed. Wich created a very peacefull environment for people in need. Lots of people were in awe. It was either doing this, or spiralling out of control, creating more CPTSD. There's dissociation, then there is me, drawing a cathedral, in the middle of a homeless shelter. A better defence mechanism.
The first time I took psychiatric meds I could see myself in third person perspective. As if watching a movie or playing a very realistic video game. It freaked me out. Eventually my doctor changed my meds.
its scary to think how freely these psych meds are given and the potential (side) effects it has had on our population! not sure introducing chemicals to a mentally ill brain is the best idea wtf 😱😱 I wish for clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and unadulterated food to eat.. if we simply had that, maybe the rest would work itself out! 🤷♂️ unending pollution by the petropharmaceutical industry is destroying the minds &bodies of all our earth's creatures!! ☠ pray
Dissociative amnesia is a bit unsettling. The first thing i remember “forgetting” was when I spent many of my nights during my senior year up with my parents. My father would come home drunk, in a rage, and I was there to make sure he did not kill my mother. Having caught him strangling her once, I barely slept most nights. I had to be alert, even as I slept. The nightmares I had helped make sleeping more difficult, and waking up pretty easy. One day, my mother mentioned his having brought in a gun the night before. I had no memory of it, at all. What gun? Then, she told me he’d thrown it into my lap, together with the change in his pockets. He then told me to shoot him, as that I now had all his money, which was all we wanted from him. That was the first time. There have been other times. My therapist said this was a gift from god. I find it a bit troublesome. What else do I not remember?
I sometimes think about the fact that I have always loved reading…in hindsight, that was probably (at least partly) due to me subconsciously trying to escape from life. I wonder how many children, who were (are) thriving in that area, were (are) excellent readers and/or writers, for the same reasons.
I have derealization/ depersonalization brought on by weed and social anxiety/panic attacks. I got stuck like this for 24 years.. I'm not sure I'll ever be free from it and to feel like myself, from 24 years ago, is scary now. It's hard to feel emotion. I'm stuck on high alert and have trust issues because I cannot connect to myself and others. It's hard to explain. Emdr seems like the answer, but a lot of therapists are afraid to try it on me. So maybe talk therapy for now, and grounding.. But that's scary. Thank you Dr. As always I appreciate your videos, experience and ability to explain these disorders in an easy way.💙
It's a cool experience to be walking somewhere immersed in thought. Then arriving without being aware of how you got there. I've been doing this for years with short and long distances.
Thank you, Dr. Marks. I suffer fairly significant dissociations, and frequently. I'm working with my doctors to overcome these things. It's been a long long fight, and I'm very tired.
I recently realized I was dissociating mid conversation at work. I was so overwhelmed and completely just stopped listening and staring off into space. It wasn’t long but it was noticeable
One really weird thing that happened to me is once I was robbed at gunpoint and I literally thought: this is not real, that's not a real gun. I'm not sure if that was dissociation but I find it curious. Thankfully I came out of it unharmed, I even handed them my phone in the most robotic way lol --- I have always struggled with episodes of feeling unreal and feeling like my surroundings are not real. Like I'm dreaming. I can function through it, but its like trying to walk through thick mud. I feel like everything is so far and i have hard times understanding people when they talk to me. I dont know if its any good that i can be functional while in this state, because yes, I can live my life and do the bare minimum to stay alive but because of that many professionals don't understand why I want therapy or even how to help me.
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it's just so hard to source out here
I used to wake up from the feeling that I was drifting somewhere, and I would experience a severe panic attack-the strongest kind of panic attack I've ever felt because it happens during sleep, and my brain doesn't have time to switch to reality. The sensation of drifting isn't like your whole body is swaying, but rather it feels like it’s swaying from the inside (it’s really hard to describe this feeling in words), but it definitely includes the sensation of being carried away somewhere
I don’t really notice my dissociative episodes until stuff like…getting lost on the street next to my home right before I get home. It’s really scary, and it made me want to leave my house less and less.
I like to disassociate just to get away from my painful chest dysphoria. The feeling of being outside of my physical existence gives me peace and euphoria.
By God..If you're prone to daydreaming and struggle with time, one thing you can try is omitting the sugar from the coffee. Easy for Dr. Marks to explain considering she's a real doctor.
In my humble opinion, anyone experiencing these symptoms could benefit greatly if they go to their doctor and explain their symptoms and ask for a referral to a mental health professional. Psychiatrist, counselor. Please get a professional diagnosis. You do not have to do this alone. Help is out there. ❤❤❤
I love and hate disassociation I love it because I go and go and go, I just feel almost grateful for my ADHD and childhood trauma because I go while without feeling logically I know how to act and it really is self preservation I'm very sensitive to my emotions this saves me
6:35 with this i think when being around certain people like family after being away and changing, your identity can feel trapped and repressed because of the knowledge of what the family will think or do. Like being strong and gone and then coming back in a weaker state can make you feel trapped and unable to get better or reassume the identity. Maybe it’s because we haven’t blended them into ourselves and just use them separately? Maybe we have to think of self, like reflect and understand ourselves and the farther we stray the harder it gets? It’s like digging to get out of a hole but you can’t dig your way out and then you burry yourself. If you don’t stop to process and then look at yourself again, you can’t identify the differences and grow. Like people hide from the reflection because it means change and the greater the hole the greater the knowledge and people can’t handle understanding. Maybe they misunderstand and only see the bad or get blinded by the knowledge. These thoughts always eat me but teach me. It’s like tearing yourself apart and becoming a Frankenstein when you don’t process and just adopt. You gotta reflect and fine tune it.
I zone out often, at the point i forget where i put my phone, keys, wallet, coffee mug, etc. even when i moved them just 20 seconds ago. I also miss my roundabout exits, miss messages even though I've 'read' them and ask again just to get a confused 'already told you', and zone out immediately after asking someone something verbally and i have no idea what they've said. Partially i think it has to do with my lower anxiety, in the past i was afraid to drive and have conversations (especially with authority figures like teachers and bosses), so i was super aware, but now that I've relaxed on these issues i zone out a lot more. It's frustrating and it makes me feel incompetent, like my mind s gonna fly out of the window any day now.
Likewise! I feel the exactly same way. All the time, every where. Now I have learned to write things down or put in alarm on my phone to remind me of everything. I place timers to trigger my memory and when traveling even at a short distance I put on my GPS. That way it prompts me and I can remember where I was going. Technology def has helped but as soon as my phone is off and I don’t get those reminders I’m screwed 😩. Anyways can’t be perfect all the time ☺️lol.
I always describe as seeing the world from behind my eyes, not outside my body. I just thought it was part of MDD. When you mentioned mirrors, I kinda got a shock in my gut. In my head, I always see my younger self (I'm not deluded into thinking that I'm still young, but I don't recognize the reflection for the first few seconds, and then I dismiss it, not wanting to think about it). Thinking back, I always avoided mirrors, even when I was younger.
My therapist recently helped me realize that I occasionally get HYPOaroused; I get overwhelmed in large social gatherings. It happened way back at my wedding reception and at my mother’s service back in’22.
Lately I've been experimenting dissociations. The other day my friend was talking to me and I was listening but for a moment my mind just.. went away and only could hear the last part of his sentence.. I had to explain what just happened and he was like what?? Also I have lose memory and makes me feel horrible, I forget words that I already use maybe a few minutes earlier specially when I'm teaching. I have to tell my students.. I can't remember the word but I'll remember later, I'll explain the definition or whatever I'm teaching. So I say leave one part blank for the name. It's kind of embarrassing but I have to do it
My friend did something similar in high school, happened every now and then. She didn’t find out until in college living with a roommate who noticed, that she had epilepsy.
During really high stress overwhelming moments, I start getting tunnel vision that gets worse until I sink so far into myself that it feels like I’m a tiny person living inside my head and my actual body is like a giant shell that I guess I’m living inside but I can’t see it or anything immediately around it. I can only see through the eyes like windows but they look very far away from me like at the end of a hallway. Those are the scariest ones I’ve experienced but it also feels sort of peaceful because I can’t see or hear anything.
I've dissociated intentionally many times. I think I started doing it as a child when my mom went into a rage. I have had an experience that I was floating above my body after ending a psychologically abusive relationship. I regularly have involuntary dissociation when I'm working because I feel like I'm doing work that is not true to who I am. Pretty sure I've been living with CPTSD since I've been a child.
I dissociate when I get an interesting idea for a story, image, script or other potential piece of media. Being able to fully block out the world and focus only on the concept and shape it in my mind allows me to bring that idea into the real world. I imagine that most creatives also do this.
In September 2016, my grandmother (who raised me) was dying from ALS on the other side of the country while I was being abused by a male roommate (he displayed ASPD traits, but I didn't understand at the time). The auditory hallucinations started around 2 or 3 PM. I thought my roommate was trying to kill me. I sat outside on the porch believing I was being arrested and sent to jail for 15 years for scaring a kid and her dad (who weren't there). I had actually posted on twitter about accidentally scaring a girl, because I truly believed everything around me. It felt like a nightmare, but I could pinch myself and feel pain so I thought it was real. I became paranoid that tiny cameras were everywhere, people could read my thoughts, etc. A little over 24 hours later my best friend held my hand and drove me to the ER to speak with crisis, and I was placed in a psych ward for a little under a week. Dissociative Psychosis is what the psychiatrist there said. Basically, I had become so stressed and was dissociating to the point where I reached a psychotic break. Diagnosed with BPD a year later. Hasn't happened since, though I do dissociate mildly when stressed (walking down the street and suddenly being a few blocks further than you thought, can't recall crossing the street or if you even acknowledged the safe crossing light). BPD is well-managed. I'm going into my third year in college, a psych major (minor in sociology), dean's list... the works.
Thanks, Dr. Marks. I'm from Poland and we use ICD (still the 10th edition) instead of DSM here. A year ago I got diagnosed with dissociative convulsions, which changed to mixed dissociative disorder diagnosis lately. I've been dealing with this since childhood and hardly anyone understood what I meant when I was saying that "I'm absent" or sth, so I'm glad you make videos on this topic even though ICD and DSM are much different in describing those conditions. Maybe more people will understand what dissociation really is. Thanks!
As soon as i started gabapentin i started forgetting where i was, where I was going, what i was doing, what i was saying... i would forget words halfway through saying them... I even forgot the names of my closest friends for days on end... I thought I had dementia before age 30... my hair also started falling out in clumps and my muscles were constantly twitching... the idiots who did my 4-hr neuro-psych evaluation told me it's 100% due to "my depression" and has nothing to do with the DANGEROUS drugs they stuck me on...
Yess, I have a dissociative disorder and Fibromyalgia and unfortunately Gapapentin is the only thing that helps the latter, but definitely makes the former worse.
I love the way you simplify complex MH issues. I work as a peer support specialist and while I don't treat consumers as a clinician would. I like having a better understanding of the disorders they mention. D.I.D is a blackhole for me since I don't personally know wnyone with D.I.D. I have a consumer I help and finding out more about this is very helpful.
Thank you so much to making videos about this. Its been a challenge dealing with dissociation and even trying to explain it a lot of people have treated it as an excuse as it I wanted to leave everything behind and appear in a different state -.-. Its annoying but manageable
I have issues dealing with my home and the maintenance issues. Drainage. I have worried so much about the responsibility of this that I have unconsciously zoned out of life. I just seem to float thru each day and can't recall what I did. I have no support for my problems so think the overwhelmingly responsibility has made me like this.
Wow , I think this has been going on for a while . I seem to dissociate a lot when I am outside to kind of zone out peoples rudeness’s towards me . I think I have even blacked out a couple timed due to abuse and gaslighting . It’s difficult because one I am legally blind and have to focus on my environment and 2 Ms I have single sided deafness . I am a mother too and want to pay close attention to my kids when we are out and about . The struggle is focusing on my children’s needs while trying to navigate peoples rudeness while taking care of responsibilities . I live in Philadelphia so . Never knew that people could be so rude here in this city. Funny thing is I have lived here all my life .
🌸 I had fright at work, I have no memory of meeting or demo of something being shown I have been going through terrible stress at work I want to get better I’m making sure I get stress down and sleep well Not sure what’s wrong but I want to get well soon and I will do my best I have been having terrible migraines that last days, I reported it to my doc and got meds for it But I want to cure migraines and not just treat symptoms
i have it 24/7. pain in the ass with no real treatment besides things like “ feel the floor beneath your feet” or “count the colors around you@ which does nothing
Thank You so much for this video. It happens to me daily and gets worse with stress to the point It is constant and dangerous. Never realized it was dissociation. Mine is so bad and dangerous that I simply cannot drive without my dog in my lap to keep me in the present moment so I don't have an accident. I have always believed it was my reaction to shock which I experience often. I attract so many horrible people.
If anyone wonders: Go watch that Black Mirror Episode where they put people's minds in other peoples heads. The woman sitting in a pitch black Room, watching her husband experience life on a screen. This is what dissociation feels like to me.
Hi Dr Tracey, your videos are life-changing and so helpful, truly appreciate your hardwork! Thank you for sharing all these information with us and sending much love to you xx
When I was in my twenties, I used to dissociate and experience feelings of unreality. It would happen in grocery stores for some reason and it was like I was floating out of my body. I wouldn’t feel intact again until I got home. This started when I was a teenager and I would feel out of body while talking to others and I remember faking it, telling myself nobody will notice just act normal.
I am experiencing this from protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal. It has been almost 3 months of feeling like I am in a dream. I don’t even feel safe driving a car so it’s quite debilitating.
Thank you Dr. Tracy. This is a fascinating subject for me. I wonder if any disassociate state studies have been done on people who survived working in the sexwork industry for years and years. Much talk of ptsd for survivors of assault out there, but I haven't seen much dealing with the likely tens of thousands of people who worked as call girls, strippers, brothels, massage parlors and eventually walked away at some point. One has to put their mind somewhere whilst in the middle of a job. Asking for a friend.
Thank you! Thank you! 🙏 God bless you! I have narcolepsy and as I was listening I was thinking I have not been able to explain this to people. I have these experiences regularly. Wow this is so helpful. I am so impressed to it awareness of this. Even in my narcolepsy groups this is not talked about. I was going to share on my TH-cam page and how I experience narcolepsy.❤❤❤ Thank you again
I have DID with about 50 alters and I can't remember 90% of my life. It's getting a little better with therapy. I'm learning to talk to my alters but switching personality remains my default coping mechanism
I was told by my psychiatrist that my dissociation episodes were caused by serotonin toxicity. Once I switched antidepressants they stopped for the most part. I still have them from time to time but no longer are they an every day occurrence. The feeling of observing myself from outside my body is quite unnerving! 🌴☀️🌴
I really like the wrap and earrings matching. DID is an extremely controversial diagnosis like the personality disorders. While there’s a lot more research backing borderline personality disorder as a clinical syndrome and many evidence based treatments for it, DID’s most famous “case study” of Sybil is widely considered to be iatrogenic malpractice on the part of her clinician, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur. I appreciate the thoroughness in your videos. Have a sunshiney day, Doctor.
I used to dissociate on dextromethorphan a lot. It gave me that floating feeling like I was laying on a magic carpet. It was very enjoyable. Of course I fried my brain quite a bit.
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Thank you so much Dr. Tracy I really believe this!! I was at a traffic light texting and zoned out the car behind had to hit the horn then I woke up and kept gone on the highway!! Love you peace!!
@@cmack5713 Check your meds and your sleep. You are dangerous on the road to the rest of us.
Can you do a video on paranoia schizophrenia and gangs stalking
🖤You have help me greatly and does trauma bonding, in reference to this important topic have a medical term that is used specifically when a client has a trusted physician. 🤏First time I had to seek a consultation. Thank you. . .👂🙏
I love to dissociate when people around me engage in small talk and petty gossip. I also dissociate when the people I'm talking to are unimaginative, closed minded, have nothing original to bring to to the table while wasting my time. To me dissociation feels like an act of self preservation on the part of my mind.
indeed a guilty pleasure that we dont want to reveal 🥲
The real key is learning how to deal with all the bs in this world rather than blackout.
Same
This! I can only stand so much before I “leave” the conversation while still standing there. It’s like torture trying to pay attention
i don’t know if using dissociation as a coping mechanism is necessarily a healthy thing or not… (i do it sometimes as well lol)
I disassociate often, and I can say that exercising has helped. Additionally, having my little stress ball keeps me grounded. Mental health is a lifelong journey, and I wish everyone out there peace and kindness. 💛⭐️
You as well ❤
i like how you note that mental health is a lifelong journey, because it is, i remember during the start of my anxiety disorder, i thought surely it was the end for me, i was truly convinced that i would eventually go lights out at the intensity and rate of the anxiety, 7-8 panic attacks a day back to back for months, it was easily the worst thing i've experienced in my life.
and yet, 5 years later, i'm still right here.
i didn't realize this at the time, but, the brain is incredibly resilient, life can thrash you around in the dirt and leave you out to die, but as long as you have the two essentials; a pulse, and a will to proceed and persist, you will not only recover but you'll come out with multiple times the fortitude. you learn a lot of things in the midst of torment, that's what i didn't know at that time.
@@ChristopherGray00 That’s very insightful, Christopher. Thank you for sharing! Namaste. 🙏
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I 'depersonalised' a lot when I was a kid and regularly felt like I was hovering above my physical self, observing
Same here.
I did, too, and then it stopped when I hit puberty.
+1
There's something really lovable about this lady. I bet it would be great to be her neighbour, go around for a chat and drink tea or something.
That’s so sweet :)
I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Marks for my podcast. She is a shark 🦈 from page to page in ANY textbook and just an all around joy to talk to. Bucket list line checked! ✅
Agree
100%!
Well I’m her neighbour here in Atlanta, she throws her dogs shit over the fence and often howls abuse at my kids.
Not outside my body but certainly I feel alienated and aloof from my surroundings
That's derealization
Many years ago, I was walking home from the grocery store, when all of a sudden, I had no idea where I was. Instead of panicking, I decided to keep walking until something looked familiar. I walked half a block PAST my house, before I realized where I was. That incident was very alarming and it made me wonder of it was a precursor for Alzheimer's.
Lately, I have trouble concentrating. I used to absorb info very quickly. Now, I often have to read things more than once or rewind a video, to make sure I didn't miss something, because I often zone out. Sometimes, my thoughts are a like a boat with no oars and no engine.
I relate to the looking around and not knowing how you got there or time lapses. It’s terrifying to look around and wonder what just happened and how you got to a half hour later in a blink of an eye.
That has happened to me as well. I have AuDHD and c-PTSD. I am getting worse at reading maps. It makes me afraid to go very far from home.
Dissociation is a significant part of my PTSD diagnosis
you dont have ptsd... doctors want to own you and most likely you fell for it
@@youaresoft-ee4ub why should I believe some stranger hiding behind an anonymous profile on the internet?
@@BipolarCourage because i devote my life to calling out the soft.
@@youaresoft-ee4ub oohhh, aren't you so tough hiding away
@@BipolarCourage im not hiding, im right here... calling all you out. let me guess... the doctor perscribed you meds...
I tend to daydream and zone out a lot but not an out of body kind of thing. I do this a lot when I'm in a lot of stress and it seems like something I do to help deal with the stress.
@trippingthelight
I was diagnosed with Inattentive ADHD because I would zone out like that in the afternoon, but I don't think that's what it is. It happens mostly after I was stressed/ overwhelmed, by myself in a room, and usually at home. I sat down and 2 hours would just go by. But I didn't feel refreshed afterwards like I would after I slept or meditated. It wasn't daydreaming either- it felt like I hadn't thought anything at all during that time. The best description would be a time jump or a short-circuit.
Likewise. I've been doing this since I was a child
I believe this is becoming even more common given the ever increasing reliance on technology and screen time.
I'm sure it has always been common since humans have ever existed. Life is quite hostile you know. Nature, yeah, observe how it works.
I didn't know this was dissociation. I've been doing this my entire life.
The more you know! 🌈
dont fall for it... just more liberals trying to medicate you
Likewise
Thank you Dr Marks for covering this little understood condition.
I have c-ptsd with severe dissociative episodes. I 'lose' huge chunks of memory whenever I get overly stressed, as far as I can tell-that time is just gone. People don't 'get' it, and most personal relationships fall apart after they live through it with me a time or two. I am lucky enough to have a good mental health team. But I'm exhausted. And I'm lonely.
i have just commented on a similar thing like this here (guess mine was longer hehe) ..having to watch Dr.Marks here and reading your post help me understand that i may indeed have as well cptsd and i also lost chunks of important memory and i just turned 30 and am kind of freaking out a bit to be honest when i thought i am actually doing well... i believe i need to work on more about mindfulness exercises mentioned. ...just want to ask if you dream most of the times and you actually remember most of it and sometimes wake up being confused if that dream was actually a part of your past memory or not? it's okay if you wont respond am just curious to know if this resonates with others, thank you for sharing and thank you for your time 🙏🏼🤍
@@blessing291Good question! Most of the time I experience very poor sleep and have no dreams at all. But, when I dream, I have basically two types of dreams.
1) 100% lucid-I know I'm asleep and dreaming and I can affect the dream by decision. These are pleasant occasionally, but often I feel more 'real' in those than during waking hours.
2) Night terrors, I guess you would call them? I rarely remember them, but I act them out + if someone wakes me I respond with physical aggression before I know I'm actually awake.
Sometimes I worry I'm easily gaslight into believing an event did not happen, or that I remember it incorrectly, or that it did happen and I just don't remember-because so much of my waking life is...not reliable. It's my experience that when you are doing well, you can actually see where you aren't. When you dissociate - you can't see the crisis - because you are not there to see it. It's the aftermath and the lead up when you can really be preset and aware.
Mindfulness really helps. I've been seeing a therapist for fast-emdr and that has helped a good bit, it's strange when you start to see how much trauma the body remembers, even when you don't. I find tapping VERY helpful for grounding and always carry some small stones for grounding exercises too. The 5-4-3-2-1 method works well as well. In my personal experience-you need to be able to recognize your warning symptoms, so you can use the grounding exercises before things progress too far. (in my case, depersonalization and derealization are acceptable as long as I don't fully dissociate).
Last thought in this already long response: If you have access mental health care - find a provider that works with c-ptsd and dissociation frequently. I've met too many professionals who did not understand what is meant by deperson/derealization and/or how they are different from dissociation. Hope that helps or at least answers some questions.
There was a time i used to look in the mirror,and i would see somebody else,that would scare the hell out of me!But i am glad,i am now coordinated.
2022 was a very bad year and i went through alot. Since then, i have never been able to fully associate again. I am in this constant state of anxiety, even when relaxed.. almost like the trauma is in a pressure cooker and i have to keep it closed.. So i disassociate. I'm glad to know it's a thing.
I went through a very traumatic experience and dissociation was how I survived. As a therapist I always saw it as a bad thing but when I went through it, it became clear to me that it was necessary for my survival. I honestly don’t know if I could have gotten through it without the experience. Thanks for sharing this experience with the community.
I don't know how I can stress so badly, about a decision to retire or not retire.
I had a few days to decide. I didn't know what to do, I got anxiety, insomnia... started asking everyone what I should do... I was all brain fried!, sleep deprivation... I freaked out and listened to someone and retired. Immediately after, I wish I didn't. I slowly realized what I did.. and had panic attacks, and feel to severe depression. My life ended that day. It's been 8 months,. I'm unable to go outside, I have constant stress and anxiety. I hate myself for losing my job. I want that life I lived before. Now I don't workout, I don't enjoy anything I used to, and the illnesses caused my eyesight to go very bad. My life means nothing to me anymore. I just don't want to exist. ... no one has been able to help... not even myself. I just can't accept
I’m so sorry, I feel for you. I hope somehow it gets better for you.
The spectrum of dissociation is fascinating. When I was younger I had a very active imagination and would zone out a lot. That never bothered me at all. Then I developed DR and DP and that was literal hell.
Sending a hello and best wishes to you 🌿
I am always zoned out and I love it! It helps me protect my peace. When folks are gossiping I zone them out. I join in when I am interested.
As someone that experiences psychosis, Psychosis feels real but everything is not real, Dissosation is when you feel like nothing is real but is real
It feels surreal
I drew this profile picture in a homeless shelter. Violence around me. Depression around me. Insanity around me. A pandemic around me. Nothing could bother me. I was simply too busy, and too occupied to be homeless and depressed. Wich created a very peacefull environment for people in need. Lots of people were in awe.
It was either doing this, or spiralling out of control, creating more CPTSD.
There's dissociation, then there is me, drawing a cathedral, in the middle of a homeless shelter. A better defence mechanism.
I really love the art for the day-dreaming part. Now I have watch the video again to hear what was being talked about.
Yes. When my doctor prescribed gabapentin, I felt as though I was standing next to myself, watching.
The first time I took psychiatric meds I could see myself in third person perspective. As if watching a movie or playing a very realistic video game. It freaked me out. Eventually my doctor changed my meds.
its scary to think how freely these psych meds are given and the potential (side) effects it has had on our population! not sure introducing chemicals to a mentally ill brain is the best idea wtf 😱😱 I wish for clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and unadulterated food to eat.. if we simply had that, maybe the rest would work itself out! 🤷♂️ unending pollution by the petropharmaceutical industry is destroying the minds &bodies of all our earth's creatures!! ☠ pray
Do you still take gabapentin?
This is exactly what happened to me! It was prescribed for anxiety but it just made me panic externally somehow 💀
doctors are playing you.. get off the pills. you are losing.. and fell for it
I ws diagnosed with ADHD first, and then once we dug deeper I was diganosed with a dissociative disorder. I dissociate about 90% of the time.
ofcourse you were diagnosed.... doctors are playing you. do better... you are losing
How did you handle that? Are you feeling better now that you have the right diagnose?
@@pandalpha5208 adhd doesnt exist. quit getting played
How u managing . What medications are helping u
That sounds so rough
Dissociative amnesia is a bit unsettling. The first thing i remember “forgetting” was when I spent many of my nights during my senior year up with my parents. My father would come home drunk, in a rage, and I was there to make sure he did not kill my mother. Having caught him strangling her once, I barely slept most nights. I had to be alert, even as I slept. The nightmares I had helped make sleeping more difficult, and waking up pretty easy.
One day, my mother mentioned his having brought in a gun the night before. I had no memory of it, at all. What gun? Then, she told me he’d thrown it into my lap, together with the change in his pockets. He then told me to shoot him, as that I now had all his money, which was all we wanted from him.
That was the first time. There have been other times. My therapist said this was a gift from god. I find it a bit troublesome. What else do I not remember?
I sometimes think about the fact that I have always loved reading…in hindsight, that was probably (at least partly) due to me subconsciously trying to escape from life. I wonder how many children, who were (are) thriving in that area, were (are) excellent readers and/or writers, for the same reasons.
@@tiff5756 yes, big reader as a child,and now. One of my ways of dealing with the here and now.
I have derealization/ depersonalization brought on by weed and social anxiety/panic attacks. I got stuck like this for 24 years.. I'm not sure I'll ever be free from it and to feel like myself, from 24 years ago, is scary now. It's hard to feel emotion. I'm stuck on high alert and have trust issues because I cannot connect to myself and others. It's hard to explain. Emdr seems like the answer, but a lot of therapists are afraid to try it on me. So maybe talk therapy for now, and grounding.. But that's scary. Thank you Dr. As always I appreciate your videos, experience and ability to explain these disorders in an easy way.💙
I feel you..had it 30yrs and its unbelievably hard to get through some days.I wish you all the best from Australia ❤
May you know great health and great peace.
It's a cool experience to be walking somewhere immersed in thought. Then arriving without being aware of how you got there. I've been doing this for years with short and long distances.
Thank you, Dr. Marks.
I suffer fairly significant dissociations, and frequently. I'm working with my doctors to overcome these things. It's been a long long fight, and I'm very tired.
Keep going ❤️ I wish you all the best in your journey.
2:10 - 2:24 I don't need to be up on a stage to feel that. In every day human interaction, I experience that. It makes me feel like so inept.
Me too
I recently realized I was dissociating mid conversation at work. I was so overwhelmed and completely just stopped listening and staring off into space. It wasn’t long but it was noticeable
Yep, I unconsciously mentally escape overpowering feelings by blanking the mind, disassociating from my environment.
Love the visuals throughout the videos now! ❤
God bless you, Doc. You are a true and rare healer.
One really weird thing that happened to me is once I was robbed at gunpoint and I literally thought: this is not real, that's not a real gun. I'm not sure if that was dissociation but I find it curious. Thankfully I came out of it unharmed, I even handed them my phone in the most robotic way lol
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I have always struggled with episodes of feeling unreal and feeling like my surroundings are not real. Like I'm dreaming. I can function through it, but its like trying to walk through thick mud. I feel like everything is so far and i have hard times understanding people when they talk to me.
I dont know if its any good that i can be functional while in this state, because yes, I can live my life and do the bare minimum to stay alive but because of that many professionals don't understand why I want therapy or even how to help me.
That really sounds like dissociation. Yeah getting therapy for it is very tough.. :/
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it's just so hard to source out here
waaa my anxiety ...waaaaaaa...
I'd love it if you talked about maladaptive daydreaming.
I used to wake up from the feeling that I was drifting somewhere, and I would experience a severe panic attack-the strongest kind of panic attack I've ever felt because it happens during sleep, and my brain doesn't have time to switch to reality. The sensation of drifting isn't like your whole body is swaying, but rather it feels like it’s swaying from the inside (it’s really hard to describe this feeling in words), but it definitely includes the sensation of being carried away somewhere
I don’t really notice my dissociative episodes until stuff like…getting lost on the street next to my home right before I get home. It’s really scary, and it made me want to leave my house less and less.
I like to disassociate just to get away from my painful chest dysphoria. The feeling of being outside of my physical existence gives me peace and euphoria.
By God..If you're prone to daydreaming and struggle with time, one thing you can try is omitting the sugar from the coffee. Easy for Dr. Marks to explain considering she's a real doctor.
In my humble opinion, anyone experiencing these symptoms could benefit greatly if they go to their doctor and explain their symptoms and ask for a referral to a mental health professional. Psychiatrist, counselor. Please get a professional diagnosis. You do not have to do this alone. Help is out there. ❤❤❤
I love and hate disassociation I love it because I go and go and go, I just feel almost grateful for my ADHD and childhood trauma because I go while without feeling logically I know how to act and it really is self preservation I'm very sensitive to my emotions this saves me
6:35 with this i think when being around certain people like family after being away and changing, your identity can feel trapped and repressed because of the knowledge of what the family will think or do. Like being strong and gone and then coming back in a weaker state can make you feel trapped and unable to get better or reassume the identity. Maybe it’s because we haven’t blended them into ourselves and just use them separately? Maybe we have to think of self, like reflect and understand ourselves and the farther we stray the harder it gets? It’s like digging to get out of a hole but you can’t dig your way out and then you burry yourself. If you don’t stop to process and then look at yourself again, you can’t identify the differences and grow. Like people hide from the reflection because it means change and the greater the hole the greater the knowledge and people can’t handle understanding. Maybe they misunderstand and only see the bad or get blinded by the knowledge. These thoughts always eat me but teach me. It’s like tearing yourself apart and becoming a Frankenstein when you don’t process and just adopt. You gotta reflect and fine tune it.
I zone out often, at the point i forget where i put my phone, keys, wallet, coffee mug, etc. even when i moved them just 20 seconds ago. I also miss my roundabout exits, miss messages even though I've 'read' them and ask again just to get a confused 'already told you', and zone out immediately after asking someone something verbally and i have no idea what they've said. Partially i think it has to do with my lower anxiety, in the past i was afraid to drive and have conversations (especially with authority figures like teachers and bosses), so i was super aware, but now that I've relaxed on these issues i zone out a lot more. It's frustrating and it makes me feel incompetent, like my mind s gonna fly out of the window any day now.
Is there an overlap with ADHD symptoms?
Likewise! I feel the exactly same way. All the time, every where. Now I have learned to write things down or put in alarm on my phone to remind me of everything. I place timers to trigger my memory and when traveling even at a short distance I put on my GPS. That way it prompts me and I can remember where I was going. Technology def has helped but as soon as my phone is off and I don’t get those reminders I’m screwed 😩. Anyways can’t be perfect all the time ☺️lol.
I always describe as seeing the world from behind my eyes, not outside my body. I just thought it was part of MDD. When you mentioned mirrors, I kinda got a shock in my gut. In my head, I always see my younger self (I'm not deluded into thinking that I'm still young, but I don't recognize the reflection for the first few seconds, and then I dismiss it, not wanting to think about it). Thinking back, I always avoided mirrors, even when I was younger.
My therapist recently helped me realize that I occasionally get HYPOaroused; I get overwhelmed in large social gatherings. It happened way back at my wedding reception and at my mother’s service back in’22.
i was just about to see if you had a video like this!! what a nice coincidence. i needed this right now, i appreciate your content very much
Lately I've been experimenting dissociations. The other day my friend was talking to me and I was listening but for a moment my mind just.. went away and only could hear the last part of his sentence.. I had to explain what just happened and he was like what?? Also I have lose memory and makes me feel horrible, I forget words that I already use maybe a few minutes earlier specially when I'm teaching. I have to tell my students.. I can't remember the word but I'll remember later, I'll explain the definition or whatever I'm teaching. So I say leave one part blank for the name. It's kind of embarrassing but I have to do it
You sound like me. I can't remember words words. Either, it is so embarrassing.
My friend did something similar in high school, happened every now and then. She didn’t find out until in college living with a roommate who noticed, that she had epilepsy.
My dad had a dissociative episode with compete amnesia for almost two days. It was so scary.
This could of been transient global amnesia
During really high stress overwhelming moments, I start getting tunnel vision that gets worse until I sink so far into myself that it feels like I’m a tiny person living inside my head and my actual body is like a giant shell that I guess I’m living inside but I can’t see it or anything immediately around it. I can only see through the eyes like windows but they look very far away from me like at the end of a hallway. Those are the scariest ones I’ve experienced but it also feels sort of peaceful because I can’t see or hear anything.
I've dissociated intentionally many times. I think I started doing it as a child when my mom went into a rage. I have had an experience that I was floating above my body after ending a psychologically abusive relationship. I regularly have involuntary dissociation when I'm working because I feel like I'm doing work that is not true to who I am. Pretty sure I've been living with CPTSD since I've been a child.
I so appreciate you, Dr. Marks.
I dissociate when I get an interesting idea for a story, image, script or other potential piece of media. Being able to fully block out the world and focus only on the concept and shape it in my mind allows me to bring that idea into the real world. I imagine that most creatives also do this.
Recently was able to remember my early days. Journal works for me. Written body scan and self analysis gives me control. I want therapy.
i’ve experienced derealization before and it felt so scary i called my mom because i was freaking out so bad
In September 2016, my grandmother (who raised me) was dying from ALS on the other side of the country while I was being abused by a male roommate (he displayed ASPD traits, but I didn't understand at the time).
The auditory hallucinations started around 2 or 3 PM. I thought my roommate was trying to kill me. I sat outside on the porch believing I was being arrested and sent to jail for 15 years for scaring a kid and her dad (who weren't there). I had actually posted on twitter about accidentally scaring a girl, because I truly believed everything around me. It felt like a nightmare, but I could pinch myself and feel pain so I thought it was real. I became paranoid that tiny cameras were everywhere, people could read my thoughts, etc. A little over 24 hours later my best friend held my hand and drove me to the ER to speak with crisis, and I was placed in a psych ward for a little under a week. Dissociative Psychosis is what the psychiatrist there said. Basically, I had become so stressed and was dissociating to the point where I reached a psychotic break. Diagnosed with BPD a year later.
Hasn't happened since, though I do dissociate mildly when stressed (walking down the street and suddenly being a few blocks further than you thought, can't recall crossing the street or if you even acknowledged the safe crossing light). BPD is well-managed. I'm going into my third year in college, a psych major (minor in sociology), dean's list... the works.
Clear explanation of a complex subject. Very impressive. Thanks.
Thank you for going over this Dr. Marks. My DP/DR and MDD w/ PF feels seen.
Yes I do it with my kids and parents I just can’t handle mundane conversations
Thank you for doing a video on this! I’ve had dissociation since I was in middle school and it hasn’t stopped since then
Dr Marks this the type of stuff scares me I know it sounds trivial but thank you for taking time to explain it love from the Queen City. ❤
I'm currently experiencing depersonalization... thank you for the video Dr. Tracey
I have DID. Good times all around. Ive accepted all of mes
Thanks, Dr. Marks. I'm from Poland and we use ICD (still the 10th edition) instead of DSM here. A year ago I got diagnosed with dissociative convulsions, which changed to mixed dissociative disorder diagnosis lately. I've been dealing with this since childhood and hardly anyone understood what I meant when I was saying that "I'm absent" or sth, so I'm glad you make videos on this topic even though ICD and DSM are much different in describing those conditions. Maybe more people will understand what dissociation really is. Thanks!
Thank You for the video. 🧠🏥🧠🏥🧠🏥🧠🏥🧠
God I really needed to see this. More than you can imagine.
Thank you I will do my best to keep writing...
As soon as i started gabapentin i started forgetting where i was, where I was going, what i was doing, what i was saying... i would forget words halfway through saying them... I even forgot the names of my closest friends for days on end... I thought I had dementia before age 30... my hair also started falling out in clumps and my muscles were constantly twitching... the idiots who did my 4-hr neuro-psych evaluation told me it's 100% due to "my depression" and has nothing to do with the DANGEROUS drugs they stuck me on...
Yess, I have a dissociative disorder and Fibromyalgia and unfortunately Gapapentin is the only thing that helps the latter, but definitely makes the former worse.
I love the way you simplify complex MH issues. I work as a peer support specialist and while I don't treat consumers as a clinician would. I like having a better understanding of the disorders they mention. D.I.D is a blackhole for me since I don't personally know wnyone with D.I.D. I have a consumer I help and finding out more about this is very helpful.
Thank you so much to making videos about this. Its been a challenge dealing with dissociation and even trying to explain it a lot of people have treated it as an excuse as it I wanted to leave everything behind and appear in a different state -.-. Its annoying but manageable
I have issues dealing with my home and the maintenance issues. Drainage. I have worried so much about the responsibility of this that I have unconsciously zoned out of life. I just seem to float thru each day and can't recall what I did. I have no support for my problems so think the overwhelmingly responsibility has made me like this.
Wow , I think this has been going on for a while . I seem to dissociate a lot when I am outside to kind of zone out peoples rudeness’s towards me . I think I have even blacked out a couple timed due to abuse and gaslighting . It’s difficult because one I am legally blind and have to focus on my environment and 2 Ms I have single sided deafness . I am a mother too and want to pay close attention to my kids when we are out and about . The struggle is focusing on my children’s needs while trying to navigate peoples rudeness while taking care of responsibilities . I live in Philadelphia so . Never knew that people could be so rude here in this city. Funny thing is I have lived here all my life .
Your videos are so helpful and you are really easy to listen to as you get to the point very quickly. Thank you for your videos! ❤
🌸 I had fright at work, I have no memory of meeting or demo of something being shown
I have been going through terrible stress at work
I want to get better
I’m making sure I get stress down and sleep well
Not sure what’s wrong but I want to get well soon and I will do my best
I have been having terrible migraines that last days, I reported it to my doc and got meds for it
But I want to cure migraines and not just treat symptoms
i have it 24/7. pain in the ass with no real treatment besides things like “ feel the floor beneath your feet” or “count the colors around you@ which does nothing
Ergh RIGHT?!
Thank You so much for this video. It happens to me daily and gets worse with stress to the point It is constant and dangerous. Never realized it was dissociation. Mine is so bad and dangerous that I simply cannot drive without my dog in my lap to keep me in the present moment so I don't have an accident. I have always believed it was my reaction to shock which I experience often. I attract so many horrible people.
I've been looking into this for myself, this video came at the right time for me! Thank you for sharing your knowledge
If anyone wonders: Go watch that Black Mirror Episode where they put people's minds in other peoples heads. The woman sitting in a pitch black Room, watching her husband experience life on a screen. This is what dissociation feels like to me.
Thanks!
Thanks a bunch for your support! ❤️
Hi Dr Tracey, your videos are life-changing and so helpful, truly appreciate your hardwork! Thank you for sharing all these information with us and sending much love to you xx
When I was in my twenties, I used to dissociate and experience feelings of unreality. It would happen in grocery stores for some reason and it was like I was floating out of my body. I wouldn’t feel intact again until I got home. This started when I was a teenager and I would feel out of body while talking to others and I remember faking it, telling myself nobody will notice just act normal.
This was very helpful. Thank you
I am experiencing this from protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal. It has been almost 3 months of feeling like I am in a dream. I don’t even feel safe driving a car so it’s quite debilitating.
I am also same i reinstated klonopin but it won't go away
I am experiencing your same situation
Thank you so much for putting this how It's understandable. I appreciate you
We will conquer our dissociation
Thank you Dr. Tracy. This is a fascinating subject for me. I wonder if any disassociate state studies have been done on people who survived working in the sexwork industry for years and years. Much talk of ptsd for survivors of assault out there, but I haven't seen much dealing with the likely tens of thousands of people who worked as call girls, strippers, brothels, massage parlors and eventually walked away at some point. One has to put their mind somewhere whilst in the middle of a job. Asking for a friend.
You’re the best ❤
Thank you! Thank you! 🙏
God bless you!
I have narcolepsy and as I was listening I was thinking I have not been able to explain this to people. I have these experiences regularly. Wow this is so helpful. I am so impressed to it awareness of this. Even in my narcolepsy groups this is not talked about. I was going to share on my TH-cam page and how I experience narcolepsy.❤❤❤
Thank you again
I have DID with about 50 alters and I can't remember 90% of my life. It's getting a little better with therapy. I'm learning to talk to my alters but switching personality remains my default coping mechanism
Thank you for another great video.
I was told by my psychiatrist that my dissociation episodes were caused by serotonin toxicity. Once I switched antidepressants they stopped for the most part. I still have them from time to time but no longer are they an every day occurrence.
The feeling of observing myself from outside my body is quite unnerving!
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Serotonin syndrome is scary. Glad you got that figured out
what’s serotonin toxicity?
@@rosyybear It’s when your brain produces too much serotonin.
It’s where your brain produces too much serotonin.
@@rosyybear It is when your brain produces too much serotonin.
Thank you Dr Tracey
Great content. Thank you!
Your tips are helpful.
I really like the wrap and earrings matching. DID is an extremely controversial diagnosis like the personality disorders. While there’s a lot more research backing borderline personality disorder as a clinical syndrome and many evidence based treatments for it, DID’s most famous “case study” of Sybil is widely considered to be iatrogenic malpractice on the part of her clinician, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur. I appreciate the thoroughness in your videos. Have a sunshiney day, Doctor.
Thankyou ma'am all your vedios are very well explained thnkyou for the useful knowledge
Very useful information.❤
Let’s goo another video 💙
I used to dissociate on dextromethorphan a lot. It gave me that floating feeling like I was laying on a magic carpet. It was very enjoyable. Of course I fried my brain quite a bit.
Thanks for sharing.