Differences Between Emotional Flashbacks

[Gs172003]

And dissociation?

I guess I'm confused about dissociation. What I've experienced doesn't seem like what you all have so I'm wondering if it's something else?

 

[Friday]

A flashback is reliving, which should just be noted even though it's not really pertinant at the moment, is different from remembering.

Disassociation? Is a huge spectrum that ranges from spacing out in a car whilst driving a familiar route (yikes! Headed to the school on autopilot!) that durn near everyone on the planet experiences, to the extremely rare DID.

Have you read this, yet? Dissociation Explained

 

[Gs172003]

I wish I knew better how to explain what it is I'm doing.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Explain what it's like @Zoogal

 

[Gs172003]

Explain what it's like @Zoogal

It varies but the easiest one to describe is the last time I was intimate with hubby my mind automatically just started, well, singing a song. And it felt like it was seperate from me like my body was just "there" and my mind was functioning seperate. I said in another thread it used to be that during those times my mind would create a character. A woman/ girl that wasn't me. I would only be her for the act. I didn't realize I was doing that every time until last year. When I did, I admitted it to my husband and he didn't like it so he told me to stop and just like that, I couldn't do it anymore. So after that the songs, etc. Started. I don't do it on purpose.

Doesn't make any damn sense does it.

 

[Gs172003]

The one I can't really describe... Well...I'll try. When something triggers it I'll feel real "foggy" and likey my brain is mushy. I'm stuck inside my head and nothing else is around anymore. It's there but it's not. The feelings that come with it I don't know how to describe. This is very very hard to put into words for me

 

[Gs172003]

I know when I'm having a "flashback" flashback. Just not sure about what that other mess is

 

[Gs172003]

I'm starting to wonder if I'm in the right place. The things I do are so "off" from everybody else. But. I LIKE it here.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

my mind automatically just started, well, singing a song. And it felt like it was seperate from me like my body was just "there" and my mind was functioning seperate.

This is dissociation.

When something triggers it I'll feel real "foggy" and likey my brain is mushy.

This could be dissociation but brain fog, in my opinion isn't dissociation, it's brain fog.

Clouding of consciousness - Wikipedia

You can actually google "brain fog". Though not a medical term, it's a term often used

Flashbacks, in my experience, is reliving my past. I see it, i feel it, I smell it, and commonly have no idea I am not really there.

Going away in your brain, being seperate from youraelf mentally, that is dissociation.

 

[Gs172003]

This is dissociation.



This could be dissociation but brain fog, in my opinion isn't disso...

I do that alot. But the other always has a trigger. I can't remember what happens now cause well..it's vague now.

 

[Gs172003]

I'll have to ask my coworker he saw me do it.i remember being panicked, and then everything around me fading out. My coworker said i slowed down alot. He touched my shoulder and i came out of the fade out but still felt the rest. Once i got through it, i just wanted to bawl.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I can't remember what happens now cause well..it's vague now.

Memory loss is a deeper dissociation. I dissociated twice where I don't remember how I got from point A to point B.

This Dissociation Explained really helps to explain the levels of dissociation. It can be from daydreaming to memory loss to DID. It varies a lot.

Have you spoken with your therapist about it? When I did, it helped me to know why I do it, how to prevent it in some cases. It really has helped to talk to my therapist about it all.