Disaccociation/derealisation Questions

[sleepingwolf]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if you had any thoughts or advice or techniques on this:

I have an experience all the time, which varies in intensity but never goes away. It is a mixture of feeling like I have a visor infront of my face, or my head in a helmet, or being somewhere present slightly above myself, or my vision clouded with loads of dancing lights or shapes. It leaves me feeling either very or slightly disconnected to the world, to where I am, to people. I've felt it in this physical and permanent form for at least two years.

I'm looking to try and reduce or soothe it (and myself). I record every day on a scale I made of how severe it is, and it seems to point to how I feel about my environment or others.

Any thoughts welcome.

Thanks!

:laugh:

 

[Ice_Fire]

Sorry to be very blunt...you can't fix dissociation without a therapist. So if you haven't already got one, getting on experienced in treating trauma is the best (only?) way of helping yourself with this

 

[I'm not Spiderman]

Hi sleepingwolf,

I understand how you feel that you are slightly outside yourself. I sometimes feel as though I am floating just above and outside my body and not really connected to myself. I usually only experience this when I am tired nowadays, which is a fairly common phenomenon, but I used to feel this way a lot of the time. I also used to get a lot of mental fog - I suspect it would be similar to your helmet/visor. I just used to feel mentally cloudy a lot.

What helped with me was not addressing these symptoms but addressing the cause. I found, and sometimes still do with the mental fog, that stressors can start making me feel this way. Then I identify what the stressor is and try to minimise/remove myself from it. Chances are, there is definitely a reason for it! Whether it is genuine fear or the PTSD talking is a different issue, but I found that most of the time it was my body telling me to chill out because something was stressing me.

Hope this helps.