racheldiane
Bronze Member
In one of my classes we had to take a test where we watched these videos that were in first person (i.e. people had the cameras strapped to themselves and were walking around, when they turned their heads the camera would turn, you could see their hands and feet, but it basically looked like you were looking in through someone else's point of view as they did random things. Well the headphone jack on my computer was messed up so I could kind of hear what was happening in the video but it sounded very distant and there was loudish crackling through the headphones. When I went to take the test I was already sort of disassociating but when I watched these videos it sent me much deeper into the disassociation. I started panicking because I couldn't hold focus on anything and even though it was an easy test (I knew all the answers) I just focus enough to absorb the information and write it down. It was really strange since I haven't had a disassociative episode in a while, and I've NEVER had strong feelings during one. Usually it just mutes my feelings out, and it threw me off guard that it didn't this time. My understanding was that it was virtually impossible to have disassociation and anxiety at the same time. Has this happened to anyone else?
