Current State

[fuzzypenguin]

I've been so out of it lately and I can't pinpoint why. It's not dissociation, but I've been calling it that. Grounding and doing comforting things doesn't help. It's hard to describe the feelings and unless it's guessed, I can't say what is making me feel this way.

 

[MrsBeasley86]

I have been feeling the same way. I can't describe it. I feel out of it, maybe depressed? Kind of empty or something. I don't know what it is....but I don't like it :( I hope you feel better soon fuzzy!!

 

[Chava]

Sometimes it's a lot easier for me to just focus on what helps me feel better, more alive, more grounded or centered, etc. I can't always find that thing or activity when I want to, but usually that helps me understand the feeling, if that makes sense. Like really simple sounds (and almost nothing else) could help me pull out of feeling totally immobilized. And once out of it, I could understand how I was probably experiencing a very early body memory.

So I think it's good you are trying grounding things. Don't give up...you might just have to try things you have not tried yet. See if you can notice what your body wants to do, whether curl up, hide, move, touch something, listen to something...and it might take a while, evening if you find something helpful. But almost always I have to find a little way to move out before I understand these complicated states. Hang in there @fuzzypenguin

 

[Stickler]

Stunned? Dazed?
...at one point I felt this horrible white blankness.
It was very like being concussed. I could not really think very well. My thoughts were very simple. I could not retreat into intellectualism-where I often go when I feel all ratshit. Couldn't make any humor-my defense and social lubrication. I felt...like I'd been carved out from inside, hollowed out. Dazed. Robotic.
I kept going. Like every emotional state, it passed. They always do.