does anyone suffer derealization?
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derealization/ dissociation
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could you offer more context as to how this is for you? I think I can relate but its very subtle and or more like I find myself observing everything ad if I’m not a part of it and then it starts to freak me out.
Yes so basically I dissociate and feel physically and mentally numb and certain things trigger it like if I look at my reflection for too long or if I get into a car
I know this will sound silly but sometimes I can’t walk because of it or go into Supermarkets , it feels like an outa body experience and makes it hard in day to day life I experience a lot of dizziness too
Yes. For me it's like I go on auto pilot and I check out. The body keeps functioning perfectly well but is controlled by some other part of my mind. When I come out of it I'm where I should be or doing what I meant to be doing but consciously I wasn't there. It can be scary. It happens when I'm extremely stressed or exhausted or both.
Yeah it’s not a nice feeling :/
Yes. And it's excruciatingly annoying. It makes life very difficult. It makes understanding myself very difficult. That's part of the reason I got saddled with this stupid borderline personality disorder label which I believe is wrong.
I think they looked at the combination of autism, ADHD, and complex post-traumatic stress disorder and didn't know that I had those three so they called it borderline but now I'm stuck with it. I'm trying to learn how much dissociation and derealization can be part of autism and ADHD and complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
I often feel like I'm inside a television set looking out at the world. Like the world and people are make pretend and make believe and not real but kind of sort of are except that they're pretending to be something else like actors on a show you would see on a TV set or a movie screen.
