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YES!!! I have no idea if I've lost time, it doesn't feel like I've dissociated and I don't move from where I'm sitting I don't think. I can be sitting on laptop or watching tv and next thing I know, I think 1 hours has passed but actually 2,3,4 hours have gone. I don't know if this is normal...

Where can I find your page? Not fully familiar with how this site works yet.

Same here, working with parts helps me so much. Before I was aware I had parts, I could never understand my behaviour or the vast swings in temperament or mood and now I'm beginning to recognise switches.

Is that okay for you, to be spoken to as 1 person and not acknowledge the parts? Is that what you both decided? My therapist says there's two thoughts of how to work with parts and one is to not really acknowledge the parts as separate and to encourage integration and the other way is to work...

Yeah, I have a part that goes to therapy. She has access to what the others are feeling but she's sort of like a filter for what gets out... which isn't very much currently. For the younger parts we use art and play therapy but it's still very hard to access. Like you said, some parts don't have...

Those with DID or DDNOS, if you are in therapy, how do you and your therapist work with the parts? Also what are the boundaries agreed and do you have outside contact with your therapist ie email/text . What have you found works and doesn't work for you? Just interested in how others are...

Yes! The best information I've found is the personal experiences of people on here and in blogs I've found. But I feel like there's very little out there that helps describe what DDNOS feels like for people. The scientific articles about it aren't particularly of interest to me, what I need is...

It just weird to think my brain is doing that! Like, WTF am I doing in that lost time?

That makes sense.

Is it possible to have lost time but not have the amnesia that usually goes with it? I can lose hours yet know what I was doing. It's just like time speeded up, i feel like 40 mins have passed but its actually been 3 hours. I think I remember what I've done in that time, I don't think I'm losing...

I'm just glad to know that switching in dreams is possible cos it felt like that was what was happening but didn't know if it could.

That's interesting about the medication. Unfortunately it looks like it might not be available in the U.K . My therapist is always suggesting I write my dreams down. Sometimes I do but rarely. I don't know why. I suppose because some a very dark and I don't want to share them or the dreams are...

Thank you Ragdoll Circus for your reply. I haven't been able to find any info online related to dreams and dissociation, so it's good to talk to someone who experiences similar.

When I started therapy, I knew I dissociated in times of stress and I often talked of feeling fragmented. Over the year with my newest therapist we've discovered just how dissociated I actually am most of the time and that there's many parts. It's all new to me and very recent discoveries. But I...

I am conflicted in my thoughts. I can see the argument for having no outside contact with a therapist helps with containment in terms of not letting the therapy spill too much into the rest of you week and basically making you find your own strength and coping skills. I don't agree with this...