Clumsiness - Does Anyone Else Suffer?

[Moonshadow]

I am constantly bumping into things.
My legs always have multiple purple mystery bruises. Some of them are quite large and ugly.
I trip over things, even my own feet.
Door frames often jump in front of me. I'm lucky if I hit my shoulder, sometimes it's my head or face.
I've been known to smack myself in the face with doors.
I can walk parallel to a wall, and bump into it.
I've had many close calls on stairs. I take stairs really slow, and always hold onto something, when going up or down.
I often injure myself in the kitchen, usually by burning or cutting my hands, or dropping things on my feet. I've been fairly successful at dancing out of the way of falling knives, but I fear, one of these days I will lose a toe.
I've forced myself into the habit of wearing shoes all day, to protect my feet from injury.
I misplace things constantly. If I could get back the time I spend looking for my teacup, it would be weeks or months.

I guess that's what happens when you live in a constant state of distraction.

 

[judyandsus]

Clumsiness - Does Anyone Else Suffer? Reply to Thread

I wonder if this is maybe a part of dissociation. Could be I'm thinking. That would explain why we don't know the hows or why's of alot of the brusies and scrapes. Just a thought from me.:think:

 

[linasmom]

judyandsus- that's a good point. I know that I heavily dissociate throughout the day, I wonder if others here who posted that they are clumsy also heavily dissociate.

 

[Grama-Herc]

Disassociation? ? ?

Interesting twist to this issue. My mom is always telling me that I just don't pay attention. In fact, I've been told that my entire life.

Guess if we are having trouble with every other aspect of our lifes why not this too.

All I know is this. Last night I broke another coffee carafe by simply putting it is the sink for rinsing. Ran it directly into the faucet. Key word being ANOTHER !

 

[Seychelle]

This is something I've thought about on and off for quite a while now. Since the memories first started coming up a few years back, my clumsiness got worse. I bump into door knobs, walls, everything - lots of bruises. It's been gradually improving but I occasionally have lapses. For me, it's not general clumsiness - I don't break things very often. And even when I'm feeling dizzy, it doesn't get worse. I don't mine is related to depth perception either, and I'm not on any psych meds.

It feels like my clumsiness of walking into things and getting bruises is a part of me that's trying to punish me or re-enact pain from the past. My memory's shot to pieces with dissociation, but as far as I can remember, I walk into more things when the guilt/shame/self-loathing is strongest.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

I think it has to do with dissociation and that crossed my mind about a year ago when I first learned about it.

I'm trying to make it a habit to be present in the here and now to see if it would cut back on my clumsiness and forgetfulness. But after so many years of dissociating it's really hard to remember to be in 'this moment' all the time. Actually it seems nearly impossible.

I know they say it's not good to dissociate but I happen to like it, other than the negative side effects of bruises and waisting half of the day looking for something I lost. I figured I better stop or I might forget my child and leave her somewhere. Yea, it's getting that bad!

Tammy

 

[Grama-Herc]

Oh Tammy

I am so glad to hear someone else spends enormous amounts of time looking for things you can not find. It pisses me off So Much! I loose EVERYTHING. I set stuff down and it may as well be in China cuz when I go to get it DUH No Clue where I put it. Bringing up another issue. Being consistant. I never put stuff in the same place twice. LIKE KEYS!

 

[judyandsus]

I was aksed by a therapist if I loose things all the time and walk around not really knowing what I was doing like in a fog not really there. When my jaw dropped and I said yes she then told me it was dissociation. I had no idea what that really meant until I found this place and read up on it. So that is why I thought after my first reply....why would it not be? In my case anyway

 

[Irton Pike]

Ho Ho! Me too! I am like a huge oaf forever walking into things. I think it is because our brains on alert for danger and you don't worry so much about the minor stuff. Certainly i am much worse when i am hyper aleret. Like just now for example.

I break soooooo many glasses/mugs/plates etc

 

[pandora]

I am always covered with bruises.....

 

[hodge]

I vote for dissociation and/or anxiety and/or concentration problems. Since my symptoms started, I began to get clumsier than I'd ever been - meds or no. When I'm really anxious, like now, I get so shakey, it's easy for me to drop things, stumble into or over things, etc. Like many here have said, I seem to always have bruises and I'm not aware of how I got them. I'll walk around the house and forget how I got somewhere - that's dissociation, I think. I have to be careful about how I'm feeling before I take walks alone because when I'm dissociating I don't think to look before crossing streets - very scary. I'm normally very vigilant about those things.

Before my symptoms, I think I was actually rather graceful...very athletic, coordinated, and in good control of my muscles and movements. I even enjoyed walking on balance beams, or the equivalent, up until a few years ago (and I'm in my mid-40s!), as long as they weren't too high off the ground, since I've always had vertigo when up too high. I can still swim, but then water is so much more forgiving than air.

 

[strawberryburns]

I am always shaking and dropping stuff, and when it starts to drop from my hands it triggers me and I get startled and damn near end up throwing whatever it is in an effort to keep from dropping it. It's embarrassing.

I've stopped counting the number of times I have dislocated my left pinky toe. I walk into corners and do a lot of the other stuff people have posted in this thread.