Poll Can You Dissociate On Purpose If You Wanted To?

[8888]

I can induce it to help escape the pain if I want. Can anyone else do this?

 

[illusionist]

The hard part is stopping it.

 

[Deleted member 39333]

Yes. I have no trouble at all disassociating. I can do it as easily as flipping a light switch. It is harder to reverse the process, and I try to not do it on purpose, because when things are really bad, it can get addictive. It it too tempting to just opt out.

 

[asadafagahajakal]

I had one shop teacher (he's a real creep and also doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut) who decided to say out loud, next to a classmate, something about a chemical imbalance in my brain, because I guess I was failing. So I have him this blank stare for about ten seconds, and he was rambling on about it (didn't mean to but I spaced out at that point) so I put in my noise reducing headphones and walked away to the other side of the school.

He followed me to that corner and continued talking to me, while I had my beats over my ears, and wouldn't shut up. So I just fixed my eyes on one spot on the wall, opened my backpack and started eating a sandwich. He must have been convinced I was almost catatonic XD.

Anyways this guy was a creep, asking 7the grade girls for hugs, and since no teachers did anything about him, I basically ended up intimidating him out of his own job. I kinda have a gift for intimidating bad people with few words and actions.

That's the only time I faked dissociation or catatonia.

 

[Sideways]

I learned how to force a switch to certain parts long before I learned I had DID. Can't force a part to come out if they're not an appropriate part for the situation (eg, can't force a little to come out to drive my car). But it comes in tres handy every now and again.

Switching back is another matter altogether!

 

[Alli D87]

omg how? I really want to escape sometimes... when my uncontrolled dissociation occurs I have no memory of what happens and It only lasts minutes so I'm told... I really hate taking meds (which is what I do to make me sleep so I can forget for a time...) I know that sounds bad.....

 

[Deadman]

I think that many forms of meditation are very similar to dissociation. The difference is that there is intent behind meditation while dissociation usually comes without intent.

I also learned a type of conscious dissociation in resistance to interrogation training. It was a conscious effort to separate the mind from the body so that you could cope with what was happening to the body.

 

[Friday]

I can induce it to help escape the pain if I want.

Opposite. The more pain I'm in the more present I am.

Outside of that, though, yes.

 

[8888]

Opposite. The more pain I'm in the more present I am.

Outside of that, though, yes.

Interesting

 

[holdenmonty]

I have a couple times in the past. I have even faked it a couple of times.

 

[WishfulThinking123]

Yes, I can definitely disassociate when I want to-usually during "stressful situations". I actually can feel the chemicals being released in my brain because, that is why it is so addictive right? I kind of just tell myself to go "away" and I feel my eyes kind of go to the side and disassociate...I can still see and everything.. It is almost like inducing a daydream state...hard to explain