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[Jacqueline1]

Has any one been in so much pain that you feel out of body? kind of like when spiderman sees things in slow mo...hear or see things? I only have this during a severe trigger feeling in dispair

 

[Friday]

Physical pain tends to keep me in my body, frustratingly. Grrrr. I don't even pass out, until my heart stops & I need to be resuscitated. But I do tend to disassociate during emotional pain. In a few different ways. Which is what it sounds like you're talking about?

Dissociation Explained

 

[Jacqueline1]

Physical pain tends to keep me in my body, frustratingly. Grrrr. I don't even pass out, until my...

Thank you

 

[BlueOrange]

I've had slow motion once, when I was really convinced I was going to get hurt.

I've felt like a passenger in my body, able to see what was happening but not to do anything.

Me personally, I've never had my perspective shift outside my body, but I know it does happen to people.

 

[Sideways]

Yeah, had it. Several times as I've watched myself injure myself accidentally, and it happened in slow motion. Like when I sliced my hand open with a chisel (sharper than expected!). It was like, "This is gonna hurt...No, doesn't hurt...But geez, that's gonna need stitches dude!...Look at me standing here staring at my sliced open hand, should probably start moving towards fixing that up..."

Weirdly, while it's happening, my response is laughter. I've laughed my way through several serious injuries, which should have registered a lot of pain, but only hit my comedy button. Weird!

 

[Abstract]

I wouldn't say pain is a particular reason for me to dissociate/depersonalise. I more commonly numb out when that happens more along the line of what ragdoll describes. Until the last year or so there was usually great disconnect between my reactions and feelings and what was going on. But yes I have often left my body. Sometimes partially , sometimes I just don't feel connected (passenger is a good word) and other times I am totally outside myself looking at myself. It is even something that used to regularly happen in therapy (not discussing trauma here). And yes to slow motion etc at times. My range of dissociative experiences varies a lot but there are common threads.

 

[Jacqueline1]

I've had slow motion once, when I was really convinced I was going to get hurt.

I've felt like a pa...

Thank you at least not the only one I was scared. out of body