At What Age Did Dissociation Start?

[Ellabella44]

I dont know when it started for me. had a seizure at 4 years old, i remember a bit of being in the hospital from that. and when ever my father went off and started in on our mother, id experience a shove aside of being fearful because sometimes id have to run into where they were and get to my brother to keep him safe. Id need to be someone stronger to charge in there and not care if i got noticed. that and several things that went on like it happened before 7. I have other things that happened after then, and my therapist says ive compartmentalized everything that I dont feel i can deal with.

Drinking for me helped when i had a breakdown over a year ago... it ended up making any self harm i was doing worse for me... last night i had a drink i was doing that and also feeling suicidal... sober 3 months and counting but for a while it did help. working with my therapist on how to deal with when this happens.

 

[MomOfTwo]

I was really young. Not sure when it started but I remember at 6 wondering why my brothers were not flying like me and I could watch them from above. I thought I could really fly. I don't know if I asked them why they were not flying but I remember the feeling of leaving the ground at watching from above.

 

[illusionist]

I've always done it, remember getting a slap around the head as a kid many times for it. Think I learned because of that, to control it and was done when nobody was around.....such a nice place!

 

[stargazer]

My mother used to tell me stories. Then when she didn't have time to tell the stories, she would make this whispering sound in my ear like a substitute story. She stopped telling me stories; but I kept on telling them to myself whispering first. Then it all went into my head. I could always get out of wherever I didn't like. Later I called it time traveling or floating. Sometimes everything would become very far away and sounds got muffled.