Dark hazy disconnect causing inability to process?

[BuildingSelf24]

I have this experience that I’m sure is dissociation but I’m wondering if others get it too and what they do about it.

I’ll be reading or listening to something and all of a sound I won’t really be able to process it. I’m staring at the words but they contain no meaning. They’re just there. It’s like there’s a dark haze around me. It happens a few times at work. I usually get up or focus on something else for a few minutes.

But I wonder why it happens and if there’s something I can do to prevent it.

 

[Friday]

Difficulty with language, both written and spoken, is a reeeeally common side effect of trauma in general, as well as PTSD specifically. Also happens when people are sick, or tired, or stressed… although it can and does manifest in a lot of different ways, and is caused by different things.

Which, if my brainz were working right, right now, I could cliff note it. As it’s not, >.< I CAN say that disassociation is one of the umbrellas it falls under. As well as stress (sickness & injury actually falls under stress, along with sleep dep, starvation, etc.). As well as the sympathetic nervous response.

As PTSD has all 4 of those things going on? (Trauma brain, stress, disassociation, & fight/flight) It makes sense why so many of us have such a difficult time with reading (esp giant blobs of text) & speaking.