It Happened Again, Dissociative Episode

[Jyar]

Geodon is an antipsychotic that I am now taking to help with reliving events in nightmare form along with writhing, screaming, yelling, and physical activity while asleep.

To answer your question, I have had a few occasions where I have had people with me when I have a dissociative episode. I'm usually accused of ignoring people because I am said to be off in thought, quiet, withdrawn and spaced out. I guess generally speaking I am said to be distant and cold if I am engaged in conversation which from what I understand doesn't happen all that frequently.

 

[jjh29]

Thank you for replying. It makes me feel alot better to hear how other people experience the dissociation. I was alone the first time and then today it was just me and my youngest kiddo and he can't talk! So needless to say it has once again freaked me out. To me 2 hours is a long time to not be aware especially when you have a child.

 

[Unstabletime]

jjh, I like to reply to this. Just to get some idea to whether I can relate to the kind of episode you had. When you have such blackout. Being totally losing time, can you still remember at a later moment that you shouldn't be where you are now? Like that you can actually realize how much time you lost after the blackout?

I guess you could by what you already said. I get such blackouts as well. But even though I get those blackouts, the events that I got rid of during those blackouts still happening again. Its a kind of reliving experience. And I too worry how such can be dealt with. It is quite frustrating to speak about this kind of thing to another person. When it can't do much as its not a visible experience to the other person. I also figured that the memory is very distorted as well. Since you know sure that time was lost, while others say nothing much happened. I wonder what could be useful in such situation.

As I try my best too, but it doesn't matter. I get blackouts anyways, and have to redo much. I haven't been diagnosed with PTSD, but the kind of blackouts I get, I too get flashbacks to earlier moments. Like one day I go to bed, and the next morning I wake up, and its 10 months in the past again. And I have to relive everything. That is very frustrating. Thanks for talking about your episode. It helps.