Confused With Everything...

[miss_twinkle]

Hello, I'm a little confused I was diagnosed with PTSD last year when I was 14 now I'm 15. I had witnessed things in my past which are quite terrifying today in school I zoned out and it was like a memory I was reliving. During this moment I had left the teaching room and went into anotherroom without being aware of this. I just lost sense of it all. Is this normal. I think im going insane. It kinda made me jump abit I wasn't expecting it too happen, would be great to get down advice on this thank you

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Disassociation. (Misspelled).

I would post the thread Anthony wrote about it but it seems for whatever reason I can't search. I'll try to find it but id google about it, research about it, and learn grounding techniques to stop from doing it or bring you back to present.

 

[Jung in the JUNGle]

Many resurgent memories, especially emotion charged ones are the unconscious trying to clumsily communicate with your ego. Sadly as the west has become so impoverished in the historical nature of dealing with the noise in the back of our heads the categories culture offer to make sense of irrational thoughts are simply too anemic.


Your concern about going insane is a value judgement about what to do with unconscious content society does not offer a useful category to deal with it. Do not be defined by these narrow assertions.


Going into dissociative states is more an indication of wrestling with unknown content that you are unable to incorporate into your ego-consciousness. There is little to fear from this as this is the fodder for self introspection, and more to fear from demonising your own psyche. Jung (I am a Jungian) spent many years reverse engineering seriously psychotic patients rantings to find that there are common unconscious patterns (archetypes) that are historically verifiable.


What the switch to this state is like is a repressed trauma memory resurfacing hoping to find a place in your ego that it can rejoin and find a place to be part of. This is actually good news as it means by listening and interpreting this you can incorporate these disowned parts of your psyche into your normal life.

 

[Suzetig]

It sounds perfectly normal - something happened that startled you and your body took over to keep you safe. What treatment are you getting for PTSD? If you're seeing a counsellor or therapist it would be worth talking to them about it. Also if you do a search here for dissociation there's some good information around.

Welcome!

 

[Gs172003]

It sounds perfectly normal - something happened that startled you and your body took over to keep you s...

What she said

 

[heyheyhey]

Hi twinkle, yes - as everyone says this is a very normal thing in PTSD. It is your brain trying to protect itself from stress, it's very normal when we get stressed or upset - it's like a more extreme version of a daydream. I know it's really scary when it happens and you aren't sure what it is, but know that it is nothing to be too scared of, it's a normal response to very stressful feelings or situations. As you get help for your PTSD, it should happen less and less :).

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I would post the thread Anthony wrote about it but it seems for whatever reason I can't search.

This: Dissociation Explained is a good thread to explain dissociation a bit but this sounds like classic dissociation. Theres many different ways to stop it or groind yourself in the present but thats what this sounds like.