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agree with the others and also “dissociation” is an umbrella term for a lot of responses. it’s a very broad term. so when you say that i don’t necessarily know what you’re meaning.

there is an app called How We Feel that is kind of like an emotion wheel and lets you track when and why the emotion is happening.

i used to have focal type pnes that i didn’t know was that at the time but it’s been awhile since i had an episode. i didn’t do anything specific to help them but they tapered off after i got out of my abusive relationship, so for me they must have been caused by that level of distress caused...

how are you thinking of parts? like, what kind of experience of parts do you mean? i guess the short answer is late 30s in therapy. before that i just experienced myself and life as fragmented, disconnected, discontinuous and like the other poster assumed everyone felt like that.

i have experienced it a few ways. i have had at least one moment of actual aphasia and that was rather scary and possibly psychogenic seizure. like standing there normal, then sudden loss of temporal context, lost access to language and then something like word salad came out, like i was trying...

how can you tell the difference between 1 and 2? there is stuff i thought i was “over” because i could talk about it like nothing and it turned out i was just numbed/“cut off” from it. i talk about most trauma like it was nothing. is it the presence or absence of other symptoms that tips you...

tbc i didn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with being early 20s, just that this is the age group doing it. i think it’s normal to not know your parts at first. some people will and some people won’t. “childish at times and serious at other times” doesn’t necessarily mean DID parts, it...

like @Midnightmoon i am pretty early on in this so i don’t really know what i think, seem to go back and forth all the time on everything. i sometimes doubt i actually have it and then another day it makes more sense than anything. i don’t know my parts very well yet. i am “covert” and also...

i find cbt unhelpful (that’s being generous) for abuse trauma and would stop seeing him, personally. it’s very weird to me that he insists on this one point and i think that chronic csa really needs someone with experience treating complex trauma.

i am a writer! i hope you are able to heal as well. i think i may be encountering invisible triggers and need to figure out what they are.

i’m so sorry you’re also dealing with it. i have also been on a lot of meds for mood and currently am on none because they didn’t fix it or made it worse in some ways.

i experience some variation of brain fogginess that i’m currently interpreting as dissociation or stress-related symptoms almost every day. i feel some kind of: cloudy, woolly, fuzzy, blocked, soupy, lagging, glitching, like head is a balloon, brain is only partially attached, head pressure...

it happened to me about 7 months ago that my therapist said this and since then i have been a total mess. i go from soupy fog and then big intrusions of panic then “void” then back to soupy fog then “social” “normal” for brief periods, on and on etc. and sometimes i feel like my brain is just...

interesting. i feel i am kind or a mixture of both? i would say it is complicated bc i have a hard time with figuring out what exactly is wrong with me. when i am depressive i am also very restless and full of existential anxiety and this feeds the depression. the problem is more like a brain...

thanks. it is tertiary for me and still very new. so it makes me wonder if i should maybe wait until more time has been spent untangling the situation but i also feel like it could possibly help with accelerating that well, when i was a kid i also did a lot of hallucinogens and had some very...

i told the ketamine psych that i had the dissociative subtype in the consult but did not say i have a dissociative disorder and forgot to mention my somatoform dissociation and conversion disorder symptoms, which can be very bad. i just am not going to tell anyone new about the DD, it is too...

i don’t see them as the same but bpd as maybe a subtype of cptsd. this is because people with cptsd can have trauma from adulthood primarily (you can be in a prison camp for years as an adult for ex, this meets criteria in ICD), and also not everyone with cptsd will have the borderline...

i also have this problem. i have focal seizures, tremors/myoclonic jerks, trouble swallowing randomly, brain zaps, urinary hesitancy/pelvic floor dysfunction (and some issues with vision but that is mostly when very derealized, not sure how to categorize). it’s a bit scary to think that this...

i have a fawn response with abusers that is a lot like what Sideways describes. in sexually abusive situations in particular i will be very subservient and almost childlike and attempt to please them. in abusive situations i try to take care of their needs before my own and at the expense of my...

yeah okay i understand. so it is definitely based on presentation over time and not definite diagnosis yet (but i think “DD unspecified” or whatever is now on my chart). like after 2ish years of working she started discussing disssociative disorders more generally with me and her description of...

agh i feel like i am not being clear. it wasn’t suggested that it was DID or PTSD. i would have both, and right now i just have the PTSD diagnosis and a generalized dissociative disorder diagnosis (the most general one). i don’t have BPD, i don’t meet most criteria for it and she doesn’t mean...

i definitely don’t have schizoid PD, but i see your point that she could be wrong about my diagnosis because it happens with symptom overlap. i am extremely dissociative so if it is not a DD i think it is probably cptsd with bad dissociation. mostly i want to know what is really wrong with me...

yeah at 23 i was totally oblivious. i didn’t know i had PTSD until i was 35 or so and it was really overwhelming to find out and everything has gone downhill rapidly since then, pandora’s box kind of effect. i feel crazy most of the time these days like really bonkers crazy. i do want to...

my therapist who specializes in cptsd thinks i have OSDD or DID instead of cptsd w/ dissociation. over 5 years with 2 therapists my dx has gone from ptsd to cptsd to DD, it has been 2.5 years with her. she said she has seen switching and that my level of dissociation and DPDR is beyond cptsd...

oh i also never cry and i do get this feeling when i am triggered. it feels at once like i need to cry and puke at the same time. like the sec before you throw up. i don’t know if it is sad-crying, i associate it with panic-crying