Dissociation Explained: Symptoms, Triggers, and Treatment
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Ever zoned out while driving or felt like you were watching your life from outside your body? You're not alone. This video explains dissociation, a common but often misunderstood experience.
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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 '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.
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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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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
same, like it's more like I hit "mute" on all my senses. I never considered it was dissociation, I thought that's what day dreaming was like for everybody! Unfortunately it often happens at inopportune moments, but that part of it was always attributed to adhd.
Turns out I'm on the spectrum and probably _don't_ have adhd! The zoning out as a consequence of being overtaxed makes much more sense than being a marker for adhd.
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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.
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.
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.
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
Not outside my body but certainly I feel alienated and aloof from my surroundings
That's derealization
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.. :/
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 🌿
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 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
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
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...
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?
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 really love the art for the day-dreaming part. Now I have watch the video again to hear what was being talked about.
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
My boyfriend talks to himself regularly. When I ask him who he’s talking to, he gets defensive.
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'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 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
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.
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.
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 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.
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?!
My dad had a dissociative episode with compete amnesia for almost two days. It was so scary.
Love the visuals throughout the videos now! ❤
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
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.
Hello I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizotypy and I do not know what it means, please help. Thank you.
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. ❤❤❤
If someone has ADHD and their focus wonders so badly that they dont seem present in a convo, or don't know anything about what they've read aloud, is THAT dissociation?
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.
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.
I so appreciate you, Dr. Marks.
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.
My derealization/depersonalization gets triggered very easily. I can't really look at my face in the mirror for long (which is not that long really) because then I don't believe that's really me in the mirror. Then I look around me, and I don't think anything around me is real. I have to try the 5 4 3 2 1 because tactile experiences just make me laugh because I don't believe it's real, so I know that doesn't work for me. Another trigger, weirdly, is reading out loud. I don't know why. I once read a poem out loud to the school when I was a kid and it was a wonderful experience, so it isn't like I have anxiety surrounding that experience. I also get triggered if I look at someone for too long, so I tend not to bother making eye contact, which is very gauche, but I can't stand derealization. Even lights can trigger it, so I can't have my phone or laptop screen too bright and have to look away frequently enough that I don't trigger it. For this reason I hate instant messaging people because if we're in a proper conversation, I have to look at my screen longer. I am already feeling funny just making this comment because it is so long.
I'm very sick with this! I'm not in my right mind anymore. I just freeze and don't deal with reality anymore. Makes me not even do normal stuff. Feel like I just can't!! Can't really find help for this! I'm non functional.
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.
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.
The german audiotrack is not quite right. E.g., at one point, dissociative fugue is translated as dissociative identity disorder (in german).
You’re the best ❤
Happened to me on Friday evening, but I'm going to chalk it up to the edible I ate. LOL
I'd love it if you talked about maladaptive daydreaming.
Let’s goo another video 💙
when we think of the word "psukhé" (ψυχή) or "psykhé" which is usually translated as "soul" or "breath of life", we wonder what kind of illness (something + "osis") can afflict
what is not of the order of the visible, the sensitive and therefore the describable (to establish a diagnosis)?
Aren't we dealing here with semantic deviations?
surfing on original ignorance, like me: one night, just before falling asleep (I must have been between 3 and 4 years old) I pretended to reprimand
my brother (as my mother would have done for example: mimicry) who was older than me and who was completely asleep right next to me when suddenly a curtain rod which was leaning against the wall fell on me.
It was dark so being unable to see anything, I started screaming in fear waking everyone up.
in my child's mind, I had received a hit from a curtain rod so it must have been the work of someone who was in the room.
I began to accuse others without proof (my brothers and sisters and a young maternal aunt visiting us at the time).
everyone was asleep and the curtain rod could well have fallen under gravity.
of course everyone denied anything and since that day, I have remained with this mystery materialized by the fear of the dark.
I will soon be 67 years old.
since none of the people in the room hit me with a curtain rod, who or what else did it?
logical question but the anxiety lies in the fact that this question, at least as far as I am concerned, has never received an answer and this lack of answer which must have been just as logical as the question itself
turned into a fear of the dark.
I was told if I googled derealization I would hate what I'd find, but I have a funny feeling that was an exaggeration.
Ah...there it is again. Thx
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.
Is it weird to experience depersonalization and Derealization? Quite often I feel disconnected from other people and from my emotions.
I can relate with you when I wake up it’s an intense haze where I’m not mentally there and when I’m near other people I feel like I’m in a whole different reality (they seem to treat me like I’m a leper) and I’m completely numb to my emotions which makes it even worse.
i’ve experienced derealization before and it felt so scary i called my mom because i was freaking out so bad
🌸 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 dpdr for years now and i wish i could come back from it
Been on autopilot for many years of my life.
Thank you for going over this Dr. Marks. My DP/DR and MDD w/ PF feels seen.
I'm currently experiencing depersonalization... thank you for the video Dr. Tracey
Is it considered depersonalization disorder when you experience life as a third person? Being aware of what is happening, but it doesn't feel like it's happening to you.
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 usually feel like I'm watching my life happen like its in a movie, or YT video.
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.
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!
🌴☀️🌴
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.
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.
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.
What is the cause of daydreaming? What function does it serve?
i recently heard that intense or wrong medidation when in an unstable state can cause psychosis.
what do you think about that and have you heard about this?
I also had recently doctor's tell me that i am at risk of psychoisis, so i am afraid of trying meditation. i also think that meditation could make me disassociate because i often "zone out" when i think about or focus too much on my body because then it feels almost "too real" idk
Why is getting lost in a book considered dissociation, at the same time others would say this person may have entered a state of flow?
Thank you so much for putting this how It's understandable. I appreciate you
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
Very interesting video.
Please reconsider promoting Better Health, i find them unethical.
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.
Sometimes when I look at my hands they seem like a photograph of my hands. Disconnected.
I'd call it GTA syndrome due to constant fps experience and possibly playing with multiple characters.
Can rage be a precursor?
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
Is a flow state a kind of disassociation due to losing track of time?
Good question!
Can you get dpdr with no known trauma? I've had this since I was 14, I'm 27 now I Don't know how to get out
I have a.d.d adderaIl has helped me a lot it does give me some anxiety but I just take 10 mg now and exercise which has helped a lot
Thankyou ma'am all your vedios are very well explained thnkyou for the useful knowledge
Yep, I unconsciously mentally escape overpowering feelings by blanking the mind, disassociating from my environment.
Dr. Marks, would you make more videos on the LGBTQIA+ topic? That would be very informative and helpful; thanks in advance.
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
This shit is consuming my life, it's horrible
I am very sorry. I know the feeling.
After All, ketamine is kindofa End-of-the-World hellish wholeness :) remember to action, if such your way :)
I cannot remember my life before 1996. I wonder sometimes if it's dissociative amnesia or just that I was young and couldn't keep memories like I can now. I've had a good life since '96. Idk what could've happened.
Id like to share a recent episode I had: here where i live, the LGTB pride began last weekend, so i went to a certain event, a drag queen workshop: i knew nobody There, All new people, so i began to feel uncomfortable without knowing why, and had this disphorical feeling during Almost 2 hours, wishing to run away and leave the place and go back to my house to feel safe again; but then we began the make-up practice, so i could start to channel my nerves through my face painting, and anguish diminished... But during the theoretical part of the course, i tried to listen and focus, but i couldnt retain information, i was "somewhere else", to deal with so much stress, so it took me a lot more Time and effort Than my peers to perform the make-up paradigm they were teaching us...
At that moment, during the workshop, i didnt notice how stressful the experience was, but the following day, i had two autistic meltdowns, which i havent had for years... And remained impaired and sleeping the rest of the day... Somehow i dissociated and got stressed so much, that I payed the price on the following day, brutally... It amazes me how a New social situation can trigger defense mechanisms and even catalize severe crises in that Way, without the person feeling it as overwhelming as It really was.
Thanks for reading this papyrus.... Have a nice day.
I'd love a video that would explain about the connection between the microbiome, liver, and brain. (And, Candida.)
Been going through a lot because of all of em. And the more I dig, the more I find. From the pills I take, to the food at home, to the impulses I have throughout the day. I'm really tired guys
Try having D.I.D with 28 alters then you'll know what real dissociation is
I have a question about NARM. I have cptsd, abuse amnesia/dissociation, anxiety, and depression, was in a 24 yr abusive marriage. I've been in sessions for 2 months. My therapist starts out by asking what I want for myself, then has me talk about what I'm going through, with the pauses to sit with the feelings. Just when I am the most emotional and upset and at the topmost branch of the trauma tree, the session ends, he recaps what happened and it's over. I'm left with all the feelings and flooding and no way to get back down, no direction or guidance. Then I take a shower and nap, dissociate and forget details of the session, and am very sensitive and extra reliant on my service dog for a few days. Is that how NARM is supposed to go?
Interesting video but there's something you haven't mentioned, neurological, Disorder (FND)
I was having episodes that felt like an aura seizure (I have Epilepsy ) however my neurologist told me that it seemed like I was having dissociative seizures which are very similar to epileptic seizures but the difference is, one is physical while the other is psychological. one needs medication while the other needs different types of therapy depending on the symptoms. He also told me that it's not always caused by trauma!
My GP transferred me to a mental health coordinator and told me to do grounding techniques. Things became worse I contacted my seizure nurse and she said the GP shouldn't have done that. First I need to rule out epilepsy because focal seizures can be on and off many times during the day and like I said are very similar to dissociation. No point in silly grounding work you need to figure out why your brain is trying to protect you and then retrain it. So now I'm going to have an EEG scan while at home to pick up any seizure activity to rule out epilepsy if nothing is picked up then its likely FND and one of the symptoms is dissociative seizures
Can dissociation explain having no memory of an intense event after it has happened? For example, when I do public speaking I can be an absolute rockstar in the room, totally on top of my game and deliver it perfectly but afterwards I can’t remember anything that happened in the room. Or I could be at a social event, and during the gathering I’m having great conversations and afterward I remember having great conversations but can’t remember anything at all of what we actually talked about. Is this the same kind of thing as when I’m driving down the highway and my brain wanders away (I actually listen to audiobooks while driving so that my brain has something to pay attention to which helps me actually focus better on driving).
Whenever I feel trapped, I experience a total blackout. I can be talking with someone. carrying on a conversation and neither myself nor the other person is aware I am not present. Further, I have absolutely no memory of what transpired. It's not something that I can control because I don't even know it's happening. It's a mystery how I can have an intelligent conversation without knowing what I'm saying
Since mind invasive technologies are on the rise, what response will Psychiatry and Psychology and others have to confirm sensation and perceptions reported by individuals who may be experiencing things, like the Havanna Syndrome? Does social science have a way to preserve empirical confirmation in an age of AI? Where can people go to obtain reality confirmation of symptom expression? Does the US government take any responsibility for protecting people from the use of mind invasive technologies, technologies they helped to develop?
The problem is I am auto piloting in a bad way at work. I made mistakes specially with numbers and dates. I have panic disorder and I’m taking prozac. I’m wondering if my auto piloting is due to stress or to prozac.
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