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I relate to much of this. Giving support and also saving this thread. I'm also uncertain of a singularly traumatic event, but I have these physical-mental phantoms that persist for seemingly little reason. I feel like I'm making it up for the inability to source them, but I certainly don't...

Thank you for sharing that. What's every day like for you? I'm really trying to relate to somebody or make sense of myself

So, living with dissociation (depersonalization for me) is a mess for private and professional matters. Sentences don't even come clearly most of the time. Impaired connection to my own thoughts and feelings, even forgetting how my body works to degrees, which makes hobbies a nightmare. Changing...

Yes. And it helps. I'll give it a go. By the way, I started this thread to ask about experiences that lead this to happening to people. I couldn't word it well, I suppose. Do you know what got you here mentally? I don't mean to be invasive.

I want to. It would be vital for control. Between discouraging setbacks with operators, professionals and depression, I give up from exhaustion and observe my own thoughts for guidance. I do want the right therapy. What's your take on dissenters to the idea of repressed trauma? The science...

I seem to experience at least depersonalization. I've read that it can originate from even emotional abuse. I vaguely remember my family being foul. They often were, I just don't recall a formative trauma, or much of anything from childhood. I apologize for asking anyone to relive anything. I...

It helped me reading about your internal conflict, how you coped before, throughout, after therapy, and the origins you provided. Totally demonstrative of complexity behind trauma. For additional context how is it dealing with this from the point you're at now on a day to day basis? How would...

@joeylittle Thanks for relocating the thread (if you did), the reply and clarification. I'd feel less crazy if you're right! I keep seeing definitions stated as "feeling like you're watching a boring movie of your life; feeling like an automaton; observing the self outside the body." For years...

Trying to paint a picture of it. So, some backdrop of anxiety lingers, even if you're used to it. You may be aware you are usually not satisfyingly grounded in immediate occurrences. Here's the thread focus: there are times you experience an abrupt degeneration/decline in self that mentally...

In a general sense I follow. I supposed those two choices were fair to, at least tentatively, apply to myself with respect to my case. Although it's possible I wasn't affected by the sexual encounters, and my discomfort stems only from parental neglect, which seems incomplete somehow; each...

As a side note I think parental neglect manifested in persistent depersonalization for me since 9. Maybe it influenced my behaviors. For years I've been somewhat removed from my sense of myself sexually, mainly my libido. I don't personally consider myself having been treated terribly...