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Slight Edit: I need to not refer to that experience as "Dissociative Amnesia," it's more accurate to call it Depersonalization-derealization .

Sort of what happened with me too. The therapist I was seeing kept trying to get me to tell her about my accident. I told her that I didn't care about it, and she kept pressing. I asked her why she kept bugging me about it, and she said "I think you have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." I...

Ya know, I knew it didn't fit. This burning I'd have in my head, it felt like it was going to explode. Part of what was so scary is that I had no idea what was happening or why. It almost surfaced in 2006, but not entirely. Thanks for the welcomes everyone, best to you all, keep on keepin' on.

Thanks. I agree, and I think I've faced that gradually. I think I was under the delusion that I'd never age, or die, or who knows what else. And I agree that deciding to actually accept that, to simply "be" and live on Earth for the time I have, it ain't so bad.

Hey all, Just call me FP. I was in a near-death car accident when I was 17, and had to spend three months in the hospital. I experienced various traumatic injuries, and it changed my life course forever. I'm now 38, functional, and just walk with a limp. I'm here because my wife and I moved...